PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 4 Outline Consciousness
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The awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking, and remembering: waking consciousness: your thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized. You feel alert: altered state of consciousness: thoughts may be fuzzy and disoriented, taking bizarre turns. When driving to school, you don"t remember getting there, although you got to school, your thoughts were somewhere else: daydreaming, sitting somewhere and your mind is off somewhere else. Your consciousness is tending to something else: sleep, one of our body"s biological rhythms, hypnosis, meditation, drugs, what is sleep, biological rhythms: Infradian: occur over a period of time greater than 24 hours (women"s period: ultradium cycle: occur more than once in a 24-hour cycle. Stage 1: light sleep: hypnogogic images or hallucinations, hypnic jerk. Rem sleep (final stage): after stage 4, a person experiences stage 3 and. Vivid dreams: what are some sleep disorders, nightmares, rem behavior disorder, sleep walking, night terrors.
