Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Sleep Spindle, Ethology, Fantasy Prone Personality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Measuring states of consciousness self-report in which people describe their inner experiences self-reports are often the most direct insight into a person"s experiences. The cognitive unconscious controlled vs. automatic processing controlled (effortful) processing the voluntary use of attention and conscious effort automatic processing can be performed with little or no conscious effort. Langer points out that automatic processing has a key disadvantage it can reduce our chances of finding new ways to approach problems controlled requires effort and is slower than automatic processing. Circadian rhythms our daily biological clocks are call circadian rhythms. Keeping time regulated by the brains suprachiasmatic nuclei (scn) located in the hypothalamus. Scn is the brain clock circadian clock is biological, but environmental factors help keep scn neurons on a 24-hour schedule most people drift into a longer natural cycle of about 24. 2-24. 8 hours, called a free-running circadian rhythm.