PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 4 Pschology
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Consciousness: the awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking, and remembering. Types of consciousness: walking consciousness: your thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized. You feel alert: altered state of consciousness: thoughts may be fuzzy and disorganized, taking bizarre urns. You may feel less alert or more alert. Altered state of consciousness: divided consciousness, daydreaming, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, drugs. Sleep: one of our body"s biological rhythms. Infradian: occur over a period of time greater than 24 hours: ultradian: occur more than once in a 24 hour cycle. Most are confined to either day or night: circadian: variation occurs in roughly a 24 hour period. Micro sleeps: brief periods of sleep lasting for a matter of seconds. Sleep deprivation symptoms: trembling hands, inattention, staring off into space, droopy eyelids, general discomfort, depression, irritability. Restorative theory of sleep: we sleep for health reasons. The adaptive theory of sleep: sleep is a product of evolution.
