PSYC 181 Lecture 5: Psychology chapter 5
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Consciousness- our awareness to our self and out environment (thoughts, feelings, emotions) Trying to remember things close eyes and visualize and have feelings about it. Driving path snap out of it while driving because its familiar. Levels of consciousness: variations in degree to which one is aware of mental events. States of consciousness variations in quality/pattern/ nature of mental activity available to awareness. Nor(cid:373)al (cid:862)(cid:449)aki(cid:374)g(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess: perceive time, places, events, meaningful, familiar. Altered states of consciousness: fatigues, delirium, hypnosis, drugs, lo(cid:374)g dista(cid:374)(cid:272)e ru(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, se(cid:454), liste(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)usi(cid:272) (cid:894)do(cid:374)(cid:859)t feel the pain, even sensory overload, monotony, fever, dehydration. 3 ways to mesauree: self report, describe uour thoughs/feelings, most common method- on a scale of 1-10 how do you feel, physiological measures, eeg(to identify sleep), fmri, relate bodily states and mental processes. Pro- objective- con no details: behavioral measures, the rouge test self recognition, police officer making someone walk or do something.
