PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Theta Wave, Mind-Wandering, Delta Wave

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Kathleen Hughes

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Unit 5: consciousness: what is consciousness, structuralist: what thoughts do we have, functionalist: why do we have the thoughts we have, consciousness = made from internal/external stimuli, external: outside your mind and/or outside your body. Internal: from within your mind and/or feelings a certain way (hot/cold: metacognition: thoughts about our thoughts; think about the way you think: the ideas you have. Understanding what other people are thinking. (example: limitless movie; adoral = hyper focus, remembering everything that had ever entered his consciousness: mind-wandering: involuntary act of drifting mind; thinking about irrelevant ideas. Internal stimuli take you in a direction where your consciousness was involuntarily in control = mind wandering: controlled processes: when you are explicitly trying to keep your consciousness on a certain event. Explicitly control where consciousness is focussed: automatic processes: pay attention to things that please us implicitly; don"t realize the satisfaction that comes about. Put ice cream in front of them and saw how much they ate.