PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Robot-Assisted Surgery, Sleep Deprivation, Virtual Reality
9 Jul 2020
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Creating virtual reality: perceptual experience of being inside an object, moving through an environment, or carrying out some action that is created or simulated by computer, Refers to different levels of awareness of one"s thoughts and feelings: continuum od consciousness, controlled processes. Require full awareness, alertness =, and concentration to reach some goal; usually interfere with execution of other ongoing activities: automatic processes. Require little awareness, take minimal attention, and don"t interfere with other ongoing activities: requires low level of awareness, often occurs during automatic processes and involves fantasizing or dreaming while awake. Altered states: results from using any number of procedures, such as meditation, psychoactive drugs, hypnosis, or sleep deprivation, to produce an awareness that differs from normal consciousness, meditation is an altered state. Consist of five stages that involve different levels of awareness, consciousness, and responsiveness as well as different levels of physiological arousal. Deepest state of sleep boarders on unconsciousness: dreaming.
