PSYC 100 Lecture 7: Week 7 (Online Lesson Material)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Describe how psychologists operationalize and study consciousness: distinguish among disorders of consciousness, and how brain imaging can help to differentiate these, explain the role of contingency in differentiating among the disorders of consciousness. Evaluate the possible functions of sleep: describe the evidence for the main functions of sleep (restoration, preservation and protection, consolidation) Explain the characteristics of sleep: describe the stages of sleep, including the types of brain wave activity, and indicate how they are measured, describe how rem differs from the other sleep stages, effects of sleep deprivation. Describe the factors that influence attention: describe filtering, parallel vs serial search, response bias and satisfaction of search, describe inattentional blindness, change blindness, and the attentional blink. In the last lesson, we looked at the brain and parts of the brain, learning about how these may influence behaviour.