Psychology 1000 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

State of consciousness: pattern of subjective experience, a way of experiencing internal and external events. Alternate state of consciousness: refers to variations from our normal waking state. Intimately connected with the process of selective attention: selective attention focuses conscious awareness on some stimuli to the exclusion of others. In special tests, however, a blindsight patient will respond to visual stimuli: a blindsight patient may be blind in the right half of his or her visual field. Keeping time: brain and environment: suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn): part of the brain that regulates most circadian rhythms, located in the hypothalamus. Indeed the brain"s clock: synchronizes daily rhythms in physiology and behaviour. 24-hour schedule: eyes have neural connections to the scn, after a night"s sleep, light of day increases scn activity and helps to reset your. Stages of sleep: eeg recordings show a pattern of beta waves when you are awake and alert, these waves have a high frequency, but a low amplitude.