PS101 Lecture Notes - Slow-Wave Sleep, Theta Wave, Delta Wave
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Psychology study notes: states of consciousness (chapter 5) Consciousness is the awareness of internal and external stimuli. Your consciousness is continually changing: this continuous flow is referred to as the stream of consciousness. Some thoughts entering your stream of consciousness are the result of intention: we seem to be easily able to shift our attention to things of importance or interest in our environment. Mind wandering refers to people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts. Ie thoughts that are not related to what they are intentionally trying to do at a given moment. It"s something that we all have experience with. In contrast to controlled processes- judgments or thoughts that we exert some control over that we intend to occur- automatic processing and its effects happen without our intentional control or effort. The electroencephalograph (eeg) is a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp.
