PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Default Mode Network, Theta Wave, Delta Wave
20 Oct 2020
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The awareness of internal and external stimuli. It moves, it flows, it fluctuates, it wanders. Refers to people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. To enable one to capture the meaning in one"s own personal experiences. A device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. The most commonly used indicator of variations in consciousness. Records activity from broad swaths of the cortex. Summarizes the rhythm of cortical activity in the brain in terms of line tracings (brain waves) Cycles per second (the length of the brain waves) Normal waking thought, alert problem solving (decrease in. Brainwaves changing from being close to very far. The existence of these rhythms means that organisms have internal. Biological clocks that somehow monitor the passage of time. Are 24 hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species. Circadian rhythms in humans appear to be regulated by several internal clocks.
