PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theta Wave, Narcolepsy, Nicotine

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Habashi Meara

Document Summary

Involving two processes: monitoring self and environment, controlling behavior. History: william james first to discuss it psychologically. Defined psychology as study of states of consciousness. Freud"s states of consciousness: freud first to define different states of consciousness, 1. 1: some things happen outside of awareness, not necessarily motivated to keep them outside of awareness. Selection of some objects or thought in environment over others. Intense tasks make you ignore other things: you can do more than one thing at a time, inattentional blindness. Fail to notice when things in environment change. Many things can alter consciousness: hypnosis, drugs. Began in 1780s with franz mesmer: used magnets or sticks to mesmerize people, used this trancelike state to help patients with physical/psych problems. Usually people fixate on an object; slowly relax (fixation muscle fatigue) Today in science: an extreme relaxed state in which subject has heightened suggestibility. Remember, the brain functions when neurons send messages through neurotransmitters (chemicals)