PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Thalamus, Waking Life
8 Dec 2015
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Awareness of : external events, internal events rumbling, awareness of yourself doing. Breathing, movement of who is sitting next you. If you didn"t eat breakfast, you"ll feel your stomach. Knowing you"re alive, where you are, what you"re: awareness of your thoughts about events. Ex: didn"t get enough sleep last night. Continuously changes due to time of day, sleep, meditation, hypnosis, attention, drugs. William james (1890): stream of consciousness influenced by. Freud (1900): behavior driven by unconscious & conscious. Skinner (1950): consciousness cannot be observed therefore. 1960"s: widespread awareness of consciousness-altering drugs, behaviour (drugs: weed, cocaine, acid) Think different: the merits of unconscious thought in preference development and decision making. Hypothesis: in some instances, thinking unconsciously leads to better decisions. Bad profile: 4 +ve, 8 ve attributes. Medium profile: 6 +ve, 6 ve attributes. Good profile : 8 +ve, 4 ve attributes.
