Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jet Lag, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Melatonin

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Reid

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^unlimited possibilities: every state is part of a personal consciousness, each mind keeps its thoughts to itself, every thought is owned. Within each personal consciousness states are always changing: now thinking, now seeing, now hearing, now loving, etc, our consciousness is never the same . *conscious mind thoughts, perception mental events in our awareness (thought, feeling, idea) *preconscious mind outside of current awareness, but easily recalled. Sense of immortality and awareness of all life. *currently few individuals reach this level even as adults. View conscious and unconscious as complimentary forms of information processing. *physiological measures establish correspondence between bodily states and mental processes. Rouge test (give mirror for the baby, and we find same thing in the ) 2. retina (going to the eyes: >greater activity in the neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (hypothalamus) 4. causes lower secretion of melatonin (pineal glans: so, less drowsiness. Changes in sleep periods of a subject isolated from the day-nigh cycle.