PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Intensify, Nicotine, Caffeine
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Concisenses: person"s subjective awareness, including thought, perceptions, experiences of the world, and self-awareness. Conciseness can wonder when we are dreaming whereas when we are more focused on a task, we seem to be more in control of our conciseness. Life involves patterns that cycle within days, weeks, month or years. Infradian rhythm, which is a rhythm that occurs over a period of time longer than a day. Circadiun rhythm: internally driven daily cycles of approximately 24 hours affecting psychological and behavioral processes. Sleep is an example of this pattern. Entrainment: when biological rhythms become synchronized to external cues such as light , temperature or even a clock. We tend to be awake during daytime and sleep during the night. We are trained to believe that some parts of the day are associated with sleep and others are not. Endogenous rhythm: biological rhythms that are generated by our body independent of external cues such as light.
