PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psych 2000 2 11 14
Document Summary
Consciousness: the awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking, and remembering. Waking consciousness: your thoughts feelings, an sensations are clear and organized. Altered state: thoughts may be fuzzy and disorganized, taking bizarre turns. You may feel less alert or more alert: divided consciousness, daydreaming, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, drugs. Day dreaming: present physically but not mentally. Infradian: occur over a period of time greater than 24 hours. Utradian: occur more than once in a period 24 hour cycle. Most are confined to either day or night. Circadian: variation occurs in (roughly) a 24 hour period. Microsleeps: brief period of sleep lasting for a matter of seconds trembling hands inattention staring off into space droopy eyelids general discomfort. Restorative theory of sleep: we sleep for health reasons. Adaptive theory of sleep: sleep is a product of evolution. Hypothalamus: suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn, melatonin: more light = less melatonin; vice versa, serotonin: more serotonin = sleepier you will feel, body temperature.
