Psuchology Outline
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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
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