PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Spindle, Chronobiology
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Since 1960, under the influence of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience, our awareness of ourselves and our environment our consciousness has reclaimed its place as an important area of research. This dual processing affects our perception, memory, attitudes, and other cognitions. We selectively attend to, and process, a very limited portion of incoming information, blocking out much and often shifting the spotlight of our attention from one thing to another. Parallel processing takes care of the routine business, while sequential processing is best for solving new problems that require our attention. Focused intently on one task, we often display inattentional blindness to other events and change blindness to changes around us. Sleep is the periodic, natural loss of consciousness as distinct from unconscious- ness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation. (adapted from dement, 1999. ) Our bodies have an internal biological clock, roughly synchronized with the 24-hour cycle of night and day.
