PSYCH101 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 required readings Module 18

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Objective 18. 1 discuss the history of psychology"s study of consciousness and contrast conscious and unconscious information processing. Consciousness: defined as out awareness of ourselves and our environment, occurs in the normal states of seeing, hearing, reasoning, and remembering. Psychology began as the study of consciousness, but under behaviourists, turned the study into an observable behaviour. Conscious processing: serial and relatively slow, focused state of awareness enables us to perform voluntary acts, solve novel problems, and communicate with others. Unconscious processing: perform familiar tasks automatically, sensory systems and neural pathways register stimuli rapidly and simultaneously on multiple tracks. 18. 2 distinguish four types of biological rhythms and give an example of each. Internal biological clocks (circadian rhythm) create periodical physiological fluctuations. Cycles occur annually (as in seasonal variations in mood and appetite: every 28 days (women"s menstrual cycle, every 24 hours (daily cycles of alertness, every 90 minutes (human sleep stages)