PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder, Theta Wave, Delta Wave

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Michael Boyes

Document Summary

William james - the river of the mind. Was curious about the functions of consciousness. Separate functions and areas of the brain. Controlling is processing information, monitoring is the decisions about what to pay attention to. Monitoring makes it so you can process information without explicitly. Ability to process something very quickly and describe it without knowing what it is. Processing more than what you are focused on. Attention is drawn to specific stimuli (like your name) Raising the recognition threshold for what you don"t want to see/hear. Being blind but able to unknowingly react to light, won"t bump into objects if moved. Suggests that the visual system is working on some level but the person doesn"t know. Freud believed it was caused by emotional reasons. Repression of thoughts which caused the person anxiety. Freudian slip: when little bit of the subconscious pop up in unexpected ways and situations.