PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 4
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What is consciousness: consciousness: the awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking, and remembering, waking consciousness: your thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized. You feel alert: altered state of consciousness: thoughts may be fuzzy and disorganized, taking bizarre turns. You may feel less alert or more alert. Altered state of consciousness: divided consciousness, daydreaming, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, drugs. Divided conscousness - when you are aware of what you"re doing, but aren"t: one of our body"s biological rhythms. completely there, mentally. Infradian: occur over a period of time greater than 24 hours: ultradian: occur more than once in a 24-hour cycle. Most are confined to either day or night: circadian: variation occurs in (roughly) a 24-hour period. It"s second nature: when sleepy, the tasks that are most affected are the simple tasks. While complex tasks need you to think about them.
