PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Circadian Rhythm, Theta Wave, Alpha Wave
Document Summary
Rapid eye movements during sleep has a connection with dreams. Rapid eye movement sleep blossomed into a number of other fascinating insights about what goes on in the brain during sleep. Consciousness is the awareness of internal and external stimuli. Conscious includes 1) your awareness of external events, 2) your awareness of your internal sensation, 3) your awareness of your self as the unique being having these experiences and 4) your awareness of your thoughts about these experiences. Contents of your consciousness are continually changing. Conscious and unconscious processes are different levels of awareness (sigmend freud) Research shows that people continue to maintain some awareness during sleep and even when they are put under anesthesia for surgery. Consciousness allowed our ancestors to think through courses of action and their consequences. Consciousness does not arise from any distinct structure in the brain but rather from activity in distributed networks of neural pathways.
