PSYC 2000 Chapter : CH 4 LECT 1 2
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4 lecture 1 and 2: consciousness sleep, dreams, and hypnosis: what is consciousness and what creatures experience it, consciousness, the awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking, and remembering, some animals have some type of consciousness. Includes monkeys, lizards: 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. Occur over a period of time greater than 24 hours: menstrual cycle, ultradian, occur more than once in a 24-hour cycle. Most are confined to either day or night: eating, digesting, more than once a day, numerous times a day; throughout the night we have numerous stages of sleep, go through each stage more than once at night, circadian: Variation occurs in (roughly) a 24-hour period: body temperature, sleep wake cycle. Once every: what happens when we go without sleep, microsleeps.
