PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Disinhibition, Bad Trip, Latent Learning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

Document Summary

Consciousness is the awareness of internal and external stimuli. Maintain some degrees of awareness when we are asleep or even under anesthesia. Stream of consciousness the continuous change of consciousness. Mind wandering people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts, thoughts that are not related to what they are intentionally trying to do at a given moment. People spend 15- 50% of their time mind wandering. Controlled and automatic processes: distinction between what we control about our mental processes and what just seems to happen is the difference between controlled and automatic processes. Unconscious thought: thought without attention or with attention directed elsewhere. Electroencephalograph (eeg): a device monitoring the electric activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. It summarizes the rhythm of cortical activity in the brain by tracing brain waves. Brain wave tracings vary in amplitude (height) and frequency (cycles per second/ cps)