PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ernest Hilgard, Psilocybin, Codeine
7 Dec 2016
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A lack of sleep can be very dangerous leads to traffic crashes, psychological and physical disorders, and disasters. Narcolepsy: a sleep disorder where one may fall asleep uncontrollably. Drove to his in-laws and killed his mother-in-law. Men tend to get less sleep than women. Consciousness: the awareness of internal and external stimuli. William james called this the stream of consciousness. Behavior is a mix of conscious and unconscious processing. Mind wandering: refers to people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. Freud had state that people"s behaviors are influenced by their unconscious needs controlled and automatic processes: the distinction between controlled and uncontrolled processes. Under some circumstances, the quality of decisions made unintentionally may be better than decisions made intentionally. According to this theory, attention is the key to distinguishing between conscious and unconscious thought processes. Conscious thought is constrained, while unconscious thought is not. Consciousness arises from activity in distributed networks of neural pathways.
