PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Psychoactive Drug, Sleep Paralysis

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Consciousness: person"s subjective experience of the world and mind: subjective: it is different for every person. Problem of other minds: fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others: people judge minds according to the capacity for experience and agency. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Mind body problem: the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. Decisions: people who have time for unconscious deliberation make better decisions than people who make conscious decisions or snap decisions. Altered state of consciousness: forms of experience that depart from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind. Rem sleep: stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity: dreaming occurs most often here, body is immobilized. Insomnia: difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep. Sleep apnea: disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep.