PSY100Y5 Lecture 5: Chapter 5
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Narcolepsy fall asleep uncontrollably during every day routine. William dement only disorder due to flaw in primary sleep system. Thoughts entering stream of consciousness are result of intention. Shift attention to things of importance/ interest. Francis crick consciousness and neural cell assemblies. Human behaviour is a mix of conscious and unconscious. Mind wandering people"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of task-unrelated thoughts: less common if more cognitive resources. Distinction between what we control about our mental and what just seems to happen described as controlled and automatic processes. Malcom gladwell (cid:862)bli(cid:374)k(cid:863) ho(cid:449) (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kl(cid:455) a(cid:374)d effo(cid:396)tlessl(cid:455) (cid:449)e (cid:373)ake judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts. Conscious is constrained by capacity limitations consider only small subset of all relevant information when making decision/ evaluation. Comes from activity in distributed networks of neural pathways. Eeg monitors electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to surface of scalp: summarizes rhythm of cortical activity in line tracings brain waves vary in amp and frequency.
