PSYC 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sleep Deprivation, Reticular Formation, Sleep Paralysis
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Consciousness: moment to moment awareness of our environment and ourselves. Includes thoughts feelings and perceptions and other mental processes. Selective attention focuses conscious awareness on some things and excludes other, like zoning out while driving. Levels of consciousness: variations in the degree to which one is aware of mental events. Ex: normal ads vs subliminal messages (may affect behavior without conscious awareness. States of consciousness: variations in quality/pattern/nature of mental activity available to awareness. Normal waking consciousness- following commands, perceive time places events as real meaningful and familiar. -- fatigue, sensory overload, solitary confinement, hypnosis, drugs, dreaming levels of consciousness, we are able to flow through the different states of consciousness (ex: day dreaming in class) 3 ways to measure consciousness: self report-(cid:863) des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)e thoughts/ feeli(cid:374)gs(cid:863) deep i(cid:374)sight, (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:271)e (cid:448)e(cid:396)ified (cid:894)(cid:374)ot o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:895, physiological measures- eeg, fmri-relating bodily states and mental process.
