PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Circadian Clock, Circadian Rhythm, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Psychology was the description and explanation of states of consciousness . But during the first half of the 20th century let many psychologist including those in the merging school of behaviorism to turn to direct observations of. Neuroscience advances related brain activity to sleeping, dreaming, and other mental states. Hypnosis and drugs, the importance of cognition. Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Various states of consciousness sleep, waking and various altered states: spontaneously- daydreaming, drowsiness, dreaming, physiologically induced- hallucinations, orgasm, food/oxygen starvation, psychologically induced- sensory deprivation, hypnosis, mediation. Cognitive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (perception, thinking, memory, and language) Two minds; conscious and unconscious track that perform dual processing. Dual processing: the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blindsight: a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.