Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Acetylcholine, Stimulant Psychosis, Thalamus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

Document Summary

Studied: awareness of internal and external stimuli, subjective and private, dynamic, self-reflective and central, and selective. Defined: moment to moment awareness of ourselves and our environment: broader than attention. Measured: self-report, physiologically (correspondence of bodily states and mental processes), behaviourally (ex. Cognitive theory: view consciousness and unconsciousness as complementary forms of info. Processing: conscious: controlled and effortful, unconscious: automatic. How do these stages differ: go from alpha to theta waves. Images and sudden body jerks. (1-7 mins: sleep spindles. Heart rate and breathing slows, muscles relaxed (10-25 mins: and 4 slow wave sleep. The we cycle back through 3 and 2 then into. Rem sleep vivid dreaming, heart rate quickens and becomes irregular. Eventually cycle between stage 2 and rem: describe each of the different patterns of brain waves (beta, alpha, theta, delta). Very low frequency and high amplitude: name and explain the theories that have been proposed to explain why we sleep.