PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Disinhibition, Dream Interpretation, Sleep Spindle
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Conscious and unconscious are different levels of awareness. Mind wandering refers to people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. Conscious constrained by capacity limitations such that you often consider only small subset of all relevant information when making decisions or evaluations. Research suggests that decisions made when people do not have the chance to make conscious deliberations may sometimes be more accurate. Electroencephalograph (eeg) device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. i. e. summarizes the rhythm of activity of the brain (brain waves). 4 types of brainwaves based on frequency beta, alpha, theta, and delta. Variations in consciousness re correlated with variations in brain activity. Biological rhythms periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning (internal. Circadian rhythms are the 24-hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species (influential in the regulation of sleep.
