PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 4
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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: divided consciousness- being aware of something but not all of your awareness is focused on what you are doing. Part of you is focused on one place and the other part is focused on something else. Driving somewhere and upon arrival not remembering how you got there: daydreaming- no part of you is really aware of what is going on, similar to divided consciousness, sleep- one of our body"s biological rhythms, biological rhythms. 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) 24 hours.
