Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Slow-Wave Sleep, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Sleep Paralysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Moment to moment awareness of yourself and your surrounding stimuli (environment) It is: subjective, dynamic, self reflective are aware of can be easily received under certain conditions. Controlled requires voluntary use of attention and conscious effort. Automatic activities can be performed with little or no conscious effort. Views the conscious and unconscious as working together not as in constant conflict with each other like the psychodynamic approach. More practice leads to increased performance and brain regions involved in conscious thought become less obvious. Automatic processing also assists us in our ability to have divided attention. The ability to perform more than one activity at a time. We can do it but we are not great at it. Early birds vs night owl in the day. Morning people go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. Perform better in morning classes compared to (cid:498)night owls(cid:499) Night owls perform better later in the afternoon or early evening class spindles activity)