Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Circadian Rhythm, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Consciousness : our moment to moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Subjective and private reality and experience depend on the individual. Dynamic consciousness experiences are ever-changing and a continuous flo. Self-reflective and central to our sense of self mind is aware of its own co. The subjective awareness of internal and external events. Conscious contains thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events that we are aw. Preconscious outside of current awareness, but can be recalled under certain con. Unconscious cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circum arouse anxiety, guilt, or other negative emotions) Reject notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed con. View conscious mental life as complementary forms of information processing. We can hold onto 7 bits of info in a short term memory. Routine, well-learned tasks s flow of mental activity n consciousness are aware of conditions (eg. cumstances (as it would conflicts.