PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alprazolam, Chemotherapy, Drug Tolerance

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

Document Summary

Awareness of: external events, internal events, awareness of yourself, awareness of your thoughts about events. Continuously changes due to time of day, sleep, meditation, hypnosis, attention, drugs. Consciousness, or our awareness of internal and external stimuli (including events, internal sensations, thoughts, etc. 1902 when he discussed the stream of consciousness an endless flow of ideas. Sigmund freud was also interested in consciousness, particularly in what was going on just below the surface of the stream. He was one of the first theorists to recognize that consciousness is not an all or none phenomenon rather there are levels of awareness. Sleep and dreaming researchers also showed that awareness is different during sleep and dreaming, but mental processes occur that are quite similar to waking thought and surprisingly sophisticated. Williams james (1890): stream of consciousness influenced by attention. Freud (1900): behavior driven by unconscious and conscious thoughts, emotions. Skinner (1950): consciousness cannot be observed therefore ignore.