PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Alpha Waves, Freerunning, Sleep Deprivation
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Consciousness: our moment to moment awareness of ourselves and our environment, subjective and private (different for each individual, dynamic (ever-changing, self-reflective and central to our sense of self (cid:894)(cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) thi(cid:374)k a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e"re a(cid:449)are of(cid:895) Intimately linked to selective attention (we choose what we pay attention to) Self-report measures: asking people what they are thinking about, 2. Behavioral measures: we record so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) a spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) task, running times, exam scores, eye tracking (what people are paying attention to, 3. Levels of consciousness: freudian viewpoint, three levels of awareness, 1. Preconscious (mental events outside of our current awareness, but are easily recalled: 3. Jet lag: night-shift work, seasonal affective disorder (sad, type of depression linked to seasons. Individual differences in amount of sleep needed: not everyone needs 8 hours, due to both genetic and environmental factors, sleep deprivation can be very harmful.
