PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Circadian Rhythm, Sleep Spindle, Menstrual Cycle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Definition: consciousness is the awareness of internal and external stimuli. Is it passive (the receiver of sensation), or an active process like sensation and perception. Epiphenomenalism the idea that mental states are born out or caused by physical states in the brain. It"s the nervous system that gives rise to the consciousness. Freud: influence of unconscious needs, wishes, and conflicts. Level of awareness (not an all-or-nothing thing): we are still conscious when asleep. Selective sensitivity we can"t be conscious or aware of everything. Need to select to function. i. e if we want to see something we need to fade out other things. There is active mental processing even when a sleep we don"t fall of bed when asleep and we hear the cry of a baby but not the thunder storm. Freud states that our mind tends to wander. Seems born out of the interplay of many different neural pathways.