Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Circadian Rhythm, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Paralysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Our moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Self-reflective and central to our sense of self. Intimately connected with the process of selective attention. Establish correspondence between bodily states and mental processes (eeg) Objective, but cannot tell us what person is experiencing subjectively. Objective, but still must infer state of mind: conscious. Contains thoughts, perceptions, other mental events we are aware of. Also monitoring (keeping track of self) and control (planning: preconscious. Outside current awareness, but can easily be recalled under certain conditions. Ex: thinking of a childhood friend, memories from a long time ago: unconscious/subconscious. Events cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circumstances. Some content is kept out of consciousness because it would bring negative emotions (traumatic memories, instinctive sexual and aggressive drives, etc. ) Brain damaged patients may be able to think about something when the answer to a question is yes to communicate --> doctors look at brain activity to see the answer (uncommon though)