PSYC 2000 : PSYC 2000 EXAM 2
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Consciousness, the awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given. Increases during the night: heart rate increases, almost paralyzed, babies have a higher percent of rem. Is hypnosis an altered state of consciousness: social influence theory. Increase heart and breathing rates and other autonomic functions to provide energy: gets your body ready for actions, 25% of all americans smoke today, 38. 5% of adults age 18-24 smoke. Learning: what is learning, a relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience, making associations and seeing contingencies, the ability to modify future behavior as a result of past experience is adaptive. John watson: 1913 wrote psychology as the behaviorist views it, goal of psychology: the prediction and control of behavior , 1919 wrote psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. States of consciousness are not objectively verifiable and for that reason can never become data for science .
