Psuchology Outline

Chapter 7 Outline

I. Consciousness

* Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

* Brings our various information to "the surface" enabling us to reflect and plan (to exert voluntary control and to communicate our mental states to others.

* Slow and has limited storage

* Automatically take care of "routine business" - chief executive

* Mirror = I can see me... baby = i'm taking a bath w/ sum1 new! Yay

* What your gunna do after school

II. Subconscious

* Consciousness just below our present awareness

* Daydream

* Tip of the tongue phenomenon

* "fight club"

III. Unconsciousness

* Thoughts, information or desires about which we can have no direct knowledge.

* Sleep/dreams

* Fainting

* Anesthesia

IV. Daydreams and fantasies

* Involves familiar details of our lives: images of an alternative approach to something we have to do.

* "I like your.... Pants today..." - darn it! Why cannot

I tell him I like him?

V. Biological Rhythms

* Periodic psychological fluctuations

* "rhythmic tide"

* BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS (include the cycles...)

* -Internal chemical units that control regular cycles in parts of the body

* Bears going into hibernation

* Birds flying to the south

* ANNUAL CYCLES

* -migrations of birds

* -human change in "seasonal" appetite

* -seasonal defect disorder

* TWENTY-EIGHT-DAY CYCLE

* -PMS (getting' ur period. usually every 28 days)

* -AKA INFRODIAN RHYTHMS

* TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR CYCLE

* -varying and falling alertness, body temp change, and growth hormone secretions

* 90 MIN CYCLE

* -every 90 min, our body goes through a different cycle of sleep.

* -AKA ULTRODIAN RHYTHM

VI. Circadian Rhythm

* The biological clock; regular body rhythms that occur in our 24 hour cycle

* Bright lights can reset our biological clocks

* Change in body temp

* Wakefulness

VII. Chronobiology

* The study of forces that control the body at different times of the day, months or year

* Noticing rhythms, things that you do all the time

VIII. Jet Lag/ Night shifts

* Occupations such as pilots, factory workers, police, firefighters , where they are rarely able to completely adjust their body to changing working hours

* Occurs when something disrupts our Circadian rhythm.

IX. REM