PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Circadian Rhythm, Circadian Clock, Delta Wave

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: John Logan

Document Summary

Levels of awareness: no awareness unconscious (min arousal & reactivity i. e. anaesthetized). Attention and consciousness = not identical (koch & tsuchiya) can have either one without other. Mind wandering ppl"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. (spend 15-50% doing). Automatic and controlled responses what we control about our mental processes and what seems to happen by itself. Consciousness & the brain: association areas of cerebral cortex and frontal lobes appear to underlie consciousness (stuss & anderson, 2004) higher levels of consciousness: frontal lobes lower levels of consciousness: hindbrain e. g. capgas syndrome (anderson, Stuss, & benson, 1979: disruption of awareness resulting from frontal lobe damage. Theory of unconscious thought by ap dijksterhuis; under some circumstances the quality of decisions made under conditions when inds don"t have time to engage in conscious thought are more accurate. Conscious thought is thought with attention; unconscious thought is thought without attention. Eeg pattern frequency (cps) typical states of consciousness.