PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Absolute Threshold, Phantom Limb, Olfactory Bulb

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

It is on the lookout for any signs of dangers. This is why mothers or fathers sleeping with their babies generally don"t fall asleep on the baby. If you"re a parent for example, you hear your baby and you jump out of bed to protect it. It lightens your sleep: you wake more frequently, you have more trouble returning to sleep, you will have les rem sleep. Hypnosis: a social interaction during which a person responding to suggestions, experiences changes in memory, perception, and/or voluntary action. It really does seem to be this altered state of consciousness. For example, with one experiment, hypnotized people were told that the stroop. Test is a bunch of meaningless symbols and the hypnotized believe it. Long term practice can decrease the reactivity of your autonomic nervous system to stressful events. Important things to keep in mind: Everything is experienced in your brain. The world you live in is constructed by you.