Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Slow-Wave Sleep, Theta Wave, Swiss Army Knife

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Consciousness awareness of the outside world, and/or of our own thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and other mental processes at any given time. It"s not a unique mental process but many of them. William james our consciousness is like a stream: multi-layered -> various levels, ever changing -> various states. States of consciousness variations in quality/pattern/nature of mental activity available to awareness: normal, waking consciousness vs altered states of consciousness (fatigue, delirium, drugs, dreaming, like a stream, we smoothly flow from one state to another. Ways to measure consciousness: self-report (most common) direct insight into subjective experiences but it cannot be verified, physiological measures eeg, fmri. It is objective but it tells us nothing about the subjective experiences: behavioural measures ex. The rouge test -> red dot is put on monkey and it is put in front of a mirror. If the money touches the dot on itself then it passes the test.