PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Slow-Wave Sleep, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Jet Lag

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg

Document Summary

Psych 1010: chapter 5 november 7th, 2013. Narcolepsy asleep uncontrollably during every day routines. Serious sleep disorder in which those who suffer from it often fall. Consciousness: awareness of internal and external stimuli. We seem to maintain some degree of awareness when we are asleep, sometimes even when under anesthesia for surgery. Consciousness is constantly changing stated by william james (1902) Continuous flow of change named stream of consciousness. Some thoughts entering stream of consciousness are result of intention: we seem to be easily able to shift out attention to things of importance or interest in our environment. Consciousness and basis in neural cell assemblies considered by francis crick, who won nobel prize for his work examining dna. Psychologists interested in suggestion that almost every human behaviour comes from a mixture of conscious and unconscious processing . Attention and consciousness are closely related, but not identical: you do not have to have both.