PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Deaf Culture, Hearing Loss, Psychophysics
24 Mar 2016
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Most dreams (but not all) occur during rem sleep. Dreams consist of manifest content (cake) and latent content (reward) Random neural stimulation during dreams activates mechanisms that are typically involved in sensory input. The mind makes sense of the random visual activity by synthesizing it with stored memories. Dreams are adaptive in that they stimulate threatening events. > fully attending to what is at hand (what you are working on, the person you"re talking to, the surroundings you"re moving through) Teaches people to decenter from their thoughts and emotions. State of concentration so focused that you are absolutely absorbed in an activity. Feel strong, alert, in effortless control, unselfconscious, at the peak of your ability. Our reality is dependent upon two basic processes: Sensation: gathering information; the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain. Smallest amount of stimulus that can be detected.
