PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Psychoactive Drug, Sleep Disorder, Carl Jung
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Consciousness our awareness of ourselves and the outside world/environment. Unconsciousness loss of responsiveness to the environment from disease, trauma, anaesthesia. Circadian rhythm biological clock (hypothalamus); regular body rhythms that occur on a 24hr cycle (ex. temperature, sleep) States of consciousness: consciousness, daydreaming, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, drug- induced states. Conscious level information about yourself and your environment. Nonconscious level body processes inaccessible to conscious awareness (ex. blood flow, heartbeat, etc) Preconscious level outside of awareness, but contains feelings & memories that you can easily bring into conscious awareness. (ex. favourite toy as child preconscious memory) Subconscious level information that we are not consciously aware of but we know must exist due to behaviour; priming and mere-exposure effect. Unconscious level unacceptable feelings, thoughts to our conscious mind, repressed into unconscious mind. Stage 1 alpha waves; hypnogogic hallucinations; sleep talking; hypnic jerk; slow down of biological functions (ex. blood pressure, heart rate, respiration) and a decrease in temperature.