PSY100Y5 Chapter 5: Chapter 5
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Consciousness is the awareness of internal & external stimuli. Attention & consciousness are closely related but not identical. Mind wandering: refers to people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. Not into a lecture when professor is talking until it is close to exam time. 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. Conscious thought is thought with attention and unconscious thought is thought without attention. Consciousness is the activity in distributed networks of neural pathways. Electroencephalograph (eeg): a device that monitors the electrical activities of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. They vary in amplitude and frequency (cycles per second, cps) Frequency (cps) typical state of consciousness: 13-24 normal waking though, alert problem solving, 8-12 deep relaxation, blank mind, meditation, 4-7 light sleep, >4 deep sleep.
