PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Wilhelm Wundt, Jet Lag
16 Nov 2017
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Mental states, other than ordinary walking consciousness. Sleep, dreaming, hypnosis, meditation, and psychoactive drug use. Concocting mixtures of crushed roots, barks, herbs, fruits, and flowers. Many of the plant chemicals discovered by early peoples are still given to patients today in slightly different forms. Founded psychology as science based on study of consciousness. Proposed consciousness as a stream that provides a sense of day-to-day continuity. Instead that psychology should only study observable behavior. We take deliberate actions we know we are doing. Problem solving, naming an object, defining words. Automatic actions, often without being aware of them. Walking , acquiring phobias, processing sensory details into perceptions and memories. Brain activity related to pushing a button before awareness or decision to push button. Filtering out and attending only to important sensory messages. Multitasking is just plain hard to do. Evolved conserve energy; protection from predators; part of circadian cycle. Alertness, moods, learning efficiency, blood pressure, metabolism, pulse.
