PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Morphine, Peter Polansky, Mantra

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Some degree of consciousness remains during sleep and sometimes under anesthesia. Stream of consciousness: consciousness is constantly changing term coined by william james: some entering thoughts are the result of intention. Mind wandering: people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts: people estimated to spend 15%-50% in mind wandering, possible connection to creativity in some contexts less likely to occur in cognitively-demanding task less aware of external world. Controlled processing: mental processes are voluntary and effortful. Automatic processing: mental processes are involuntary and lack effort. Blink: judgments are made quickly and effortlessly: used by malcolm gladwell in book blink (2005) Consciousness arises from activity in distributed networks of neural pathways. Changes in eeg activity closely related to variations in consciousness: recall: correlations don"t determine causations, mental state and brain waves could be due to third factor (e. g. signals from subcortical structures) Introduction initially thought to be too subjective for serious biomedical investigation (kenton.