PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Slow-Wave Sleep, Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Jet Lag

• School: Humber College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg

Document Summary

People do this 15-50% of their time. Less likely to occur if task you are engaged in is one that requires significant cognitive resources. Associated w/less accurate awareness of external information. Judgments or thoughts that we exert some control over (we intend to occur) Blink- how quickly + effortlessly some of our judgments + choices seem to be made. Conscious thought is constrained by capacity limitations such that you often consider only a small subset of all the relevant information when making a decision or evaluation. Advantage of unconscious thought is that it doesn"t have the same capacity constraints. Variations in consciousness are shaped in part by biological rhythms. Biological rhythms- periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning (biological clock) Ciracadian rhythms- 24 hour biological cycles found in humans + many other species. Daily cycles also produce rhythmic variations in bp, urine production, other cognitive performance.