PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 4
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4 lecture 1 and 2: consciousness sleep, dreams, and hypnosis. The awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking and remembering: waking consciousness. Your thoughts, feelings and sensations are clear and organized, feel alert: altered state of consciousness. Thoughts may be fuzzy and disorganized, taking bizarre turns. Daydreaming, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, drugs and divided consciousness (driving but not remembering: why do we sleep, restorative theory of sleep. We sleep for health reasons: the adaptive theory of sleep. Sleep is a product of evolution: what happens when we go without sleep, microsleeps. Brief periods of sleep lasting for a matter of seconds: sleep deprivation. Trembling hands, inattention, staring of into space, droopy eyelids, general discomfort, depression and/or irritability: what processes/mechanisms play a role in sleep, bodily rhythms. Occurs over a period of time greater than 24 hours. Occurs more than once in a 24 hour cycle. Most are confined to either day or night.
