CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mescaline, Headache, Cataplexy

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Your perception is reality: dynamic, self reflective and central to sense of self, consciousness is intimately connected with selective attention process, measuring states of consciousness, self reports, physiological measures: yawning, behavioral measures: when a cop asks you to do a drunk test. The cognitive unconscious: conscious and unconscious processes are complementary, work in harmony, controlled processing, conscious use of attention, effort (ex: learning to ride bicycle, automatic processing, perform tasks with little or no conscious awareness effort (ex: riding bicycle while talking) Circadian rhythms: daily (24 hour) biological cycles, whether you are a morning or a night person is genetic, actually a 24. 5 25 hour cycle, affect body temperature, some hormonal secretions, other bodily functions, regulated by the suprachiasmatic nuclei (scn) in the brain, when there is less light going into your pupils, sends signals that you should get tired, scn neurons link to pineal gland, which secretes melatonin.