PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Methamphetamine, Dextroamphetamine, General Anaesthetic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Nigel Desouza

Document Summary

Ch 3: consciousness: waking consciousness, sleep and dreams, biological rhythms, sleep rhythms, reasons for sleep, sleep disorders, dreams, drugs and consciousness, dependence and addiction, psychoactive drugs. Psychology was once defined as the study of consciousness = the mind. Behaviourism (early 1900s) : focus on directly observable behaviour, return to focus on consciousness in the 1990s, technology of study altered states of consciousness. Electroencephalogram or eeg to study the brain wave patterns) Consciousness: awareness of self and environment (internal and external events) You brush your teeth without acknowledging that you are brushing each tooth. Impulse expression: problem solving, fantasy-prone personalities, fantasize about 50% of the time, about 4% of the population have this, altered states of consciousness. Sleep and dreams: biological rhythms, periodical physiological fluctuations controlled by internal biological clocks . Sleep rhythms: circadian rhythm, 24hour day-night cycle, alterations of circadian rhythm, aging. Shift of daily peak of circadian arousal to earlier time.