PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Melatonin, Chemotherapy, Barbiturate
10 Apr 2018
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Consciousness is the subjective experience of the world and the mind: varying levels of awareness, alternating states (ex/ hallucinations, the 1st studied psychological topic. Early school: structuralism: contents of consciousness (w. wundut, e. titchener) Introspection is reporting on your own conscious subjective experience -> impossible to experience consciousness of others. Mind-brain connection: metal events = unique patterns of neural activation distributed throughout the brain, (cid:862)mi(cid:374)d is (cid:449)hat the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) does(cid:863, when you think about a person, there is a specific neural pathway for each person. The theory of unconscious thought states that under some circumstances the quality of decisions made under conditions when individuals do not have the opportunity to engage in conscious thought may sometimes be more accurate. Biological rhythms are periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning. Circadian rhythms are the 24-hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species. Electromyograph (emg) records muscular activity and tension.
