PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Spindle, Theta Wave
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Locked in syndrome = when a person is able to experience the world, but is not able to interact with it via their muscles. Consciousness is the subjective experience of the world and of mental activity. Our brain is doing a lot of stuff and is even active during sleep, but we are not aware of these operations as they happen. Two components of consciousness are studying: the contents of consciousness (what we are conscious of) and the level of consciousness (coma, sleep, awake, etc. Also studied are conscious behaviors and unconscious behaviors (scratching an itch). Mind is the brain: activity in the neurons produces the contents of consciousness. Each element of consciousness (each sight, each smell) has an associated pattern of brain activity. The p(cid:396)ope(cid:396)ties of ea(cid:272)h pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:272)alled (cid:395)ualia. We (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:396)eall(cid:455) tell the diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) people(cid:859)s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:455) et.
