Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Circadian Clock, Circadian Rhythm, Alarm Clock

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Erica Lawson

Document Summary

Consciousness- our moment-to-moment awareness of our environment and ourselves. The most common measure is self-report, in which people describe their inner experiences. Off the most direct insight into a person"s subjective experiences, but they are not always verifiable. In contrast, psychological measures establish the correspondence between bodily states and mental processes. Psychological measures are objective, but cannot tell us what a person is experiencing subjectively- eeg"s record brain activity and identify different stages of sleep. Behavioral measures also are used, including performance on special tasks such as the rouge test. Behavioral measures are objective, but we still must infer the person"s state of mind. /some unconscious content like sexual drives, traumatic memories, and emotional conflict are kept out of conscious awareness because it would arouse anxiety etc. Cognitive psychologists and many contemporary psychodynamic psychologists also take issue with specific aspects of freud"s model. They sought to explain without invoking conscious mental processes, much less unconscious ones.