PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Narcolepsy, Shift Work, Snoring
20 Sep 2016
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Awareness of the outside world and your mental activity (thoughts, feelings, and perceptions) State of consciousness the features of consciousness at any given moment. Conscious level: the level at which mental activities are accessible to awareness. Nonconcsious level: the level for processes inaccessible to conscious awareness blood flow, etc. ) Preconscious: not currently available, but can become conscious. Unconscious: level of mental activity theorized by freud: contains sexual, aggressive impulses, e. g. chick sexing, train spotting. Priming: responding to a stimulus faster or more accurately after having encountered it before: occurs even without awareness of prior exposure. Subliminal messages effects are usually small and short lived. Affect simple judgement and emotion or overall arousal. Altered : when changes in mental processes are great enough for you or others to notice. Emphasis on this one, hypnosis, drugs and meditation: sleeping, hypnosis, drugs, meditation, coma, daydreams. Non-rem sleep: stage 1 sleep, stage 2 sleep, stage 3 sleep, stage 4 sleep.
