PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Snoring, Pineal Gland, Franz Mesmer
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Narcolepsy- falling asleep randomly during normal things. Consciousness is the awareness of internal and external simuli. Stream of consciousness- we are always changing consciousness and things we pay atenion to- william james. Mind wandering- people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. These are thoughts that are not related to what the person is doing. Controlled process- judgements or thoughts we exert control over. Judgements are made in a blink of an eye- we really do suck. Consciousness does not arise from any structure of brain but from the connecion and communicaion in the brain. Eeg (electroencephalograph) is a device that monitors the electrical acivity of the brain over ime by means of recording electrodes atached to the surface of the scalp. Detects brain waves and summarizes the rhythm of corical acivity. Brain wave tracings are frequency (cycles per second- cps) and amplitude. Beta (13-24 cps), alpha ( 8-12 cps) , theta (4-7 cps) and delta (under 4 cps)
