Psych 100: Chpt 5

• Is the subjective awarenessof internal and external events
• Aware of mental experiences, such as perception, thought, emotions, & wishes
• Person's subjective experience of the world and the mind
• Awareness of ourselves & our environment
• Is an awareness of these processes, not the processes themselves

A task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each ear

• The conscious system is most inclined to select information of special interest to the person
• people tune in one message even whilte they filter out others nearby

• 1) Consciousness: a person's awareness of everything; related to sense of self
• 2) Waking consciousness: state in which thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear, organized; ALERT
• 3) Altered state of con.: state in which there is a shift in quality or pattern of mental activity cf. waking con.

• 1) Directed consc: focused and orderly tracking of specific stimulus
• 2) Flowing consc: drifting, unfocused awareness; moves at random, stimuli to the next
• 3) Daydreaming: internally focused and directed thinking; cf. direct consc, but centered on fantasies

• 1) Waking consc
• 2) Preconscious: taking ideas not in your direct awareness & giving them priority (e.g. aware that someone is watching you)
• 3) Unconscious: unavailable to awareness in most circumstances (e.g. body lang, cocktail party, reading, etc.)
• 4) Non-conscious: e.g. blinking and breathing

• selective attention:
• divided attention: being two places (mentally at once; multitasking
• inattentional blindness: refers to inability to see an object in our midst

recording of brain activity

self-recognition test that identifies a human child's abiblity to recognize a reflection in the mirror andn his or her own

darting of the eyes underneath the closed eyelids during sleep

• stage of sleep during which the brain is most active and during which vivid dreaming most often occurs
• most REM and high level of brain activity

states 1 through 4 of the sleep cycles during which eye movement do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid

experience of becoming aware that one is dreaming

• cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24 hour basis in many biological processes
• body temp, urine production, metabolis, (stress) hormone

difficulty falling or staying asleep

disorder characterized by the rapid and often unexpected onset of sleep

disorder caused by a blockage of airway during sleep, resulting in daytime fatigue

sudden waking episodes characterized by screaming, perspiring, and confusion followed by a return to a deep sleep

• theory that dreams reflect inputs from brain activation
• originating in the pons, which the forebrain then attempts to weave into a story

approach to hypnosis based on people’s attitudes, beliefs, and expectations

approach to explaining hypnosis based on a separation between personality functions that are normally well integrated

theory of sleep proposing that animals and humans eolved sleep patterns to avoid predators by sleeping when predaotrs are most active

theory of sleep proposing that sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body and serves to replenish to the physical health of the body and chemicals and rapir cellular damage

we evolved to sleep so that we would conserve energy when we were least effiicient

• beta waves – awake
• alpha waves – calm wakefulness
• theta waves – stage 1
• sleep spindles and K complexes – stage 2
• delta waves – stage 3 and 4
• REM
• sleep

• awake and non attentive - closed eyes, awake, meditating alpha waves
• awake and attentive - low amplitude, fast, irregular, beta waves
• sleep stage 1&2 - brain enters a high-amp, slow, regular waves = theta waves (e.g. daydreaming)
• sleep stages 3&4 - deepest sleep, brain activity slows down, large amp, delta waves
• stage 5 - sleep cycle starts moving backwards towards stage 1, beta waves, low amp, fast, regular

set of techniques that provides people with suggestions for alterations in their perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours