Psychology 1000 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 Consciousness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

The stroop effect: ie, ask a person to tell the color of the word, and read a blue colored word red , and say red instead of blue. Naturally 25 hour cycle, we artificially compressed it to 24hr. Peak level in late afternoon (best time for physical tasks) Controlled by scn: suprachiasmatic nucleus in pineal gland, works by stimulate photosensitive ganglion cells. Sunlight stimulates scn, which inhibits the production of melatonin. A chemical called melanopsin is broken down in blue light. Darkness removes inhibition, resulting more melatonin, and we feel. Phase advance (moving forward, ie fly to west) more difficult than. Info not accessible, but it may leak out from time to time, Tip-of-tongue difficulty of pulling from preconscious to conscious, best way to fix it is to stop thinking about it for a while and go back to it later. Freud said: a happy person never fantasizes, only an unhappy one in. Safety valve: escape from life relief pressure.