Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Theta Wave, Shallow Breathing, Soltyrei

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Important points: circadian rhythms, sleep, induced states, hypnosis, know sleep stages well. Intimately connected with the process of selective attention. If the mind is a theatre of mental activity, consciousness reflects whatever is illuminated at the moment. The emotional unconscious: unconscious processes have a motivational and emotional flavour, bargh & chartrand (1999) propose mood is influenced by events in environments which people are not consciously aware of. In one study they subliminally presented university students with nouns that were either strongly or mildly negative, or strongly or mildly positive. 3: although they were not consciously aware of seeing the nouns, those shown the strongest negative word displayed the saddest moods, whereas those who had seen the strongest positive words showed the happiest moods. Windows to the brain: researchers have examined brain functioning of patients who have disorders that impair conscious perception; two of which are visual agnosia and blind sight, visual agnosia: