PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Term Test Notes - Little Albert Experiment, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Connectionism

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: John Bickford

Document Summary

Consciousness: awareness of a person of experiencing thoughts, sensations and feelings. (like watching a theater production), altered states of consciousness are different than normal states of consciousness. Sleep cycle: there are 4 stages in sleep cycle, generally, we go sleep in the order of stage 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1. Stage 3: delta waves slower wave patterns with higher peaks, more difficult to arouse. Dreaming: no-one knows what really the purpose of dreaming is, many people provided different theories for dreaming. It states there are two aspects conscious (logical, humanistic aspect) and unconscious (animalistic, sexual) which cannot be expressed easily in the human social world. Reverse learning theory: dreams have no meaning and is used to clean unnecessary information accumulated throughout the day, un-learning of material that serves no purpose relevant to us, therefore, searching for meaning in a dream is pointless.