Psuchology Outline
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Chapter 7 Outline
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 = im taking a bath w/ sum1 new! Yay
What your gunna do after school
Subconscious
Consciousness just below our present awareness
Daydream
Tip of the tongue phenomenon
“fight club”
Unconsciousness
Thoughts, information or desires about which we can have no direct knowledge.
Sleep/dreams
Fainting
Anesthesia
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?
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
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
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
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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.