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SEPT 18-22, 2017 PSY 150 CHAPTER 4 – CONSCIOUSNESS 9/18   

Sensory awareness of the environment Direct inner awareness of one’s thoughts, images, emotions, and memories Really difficult term for psychology to define, much to debate

Altered States of Consciousness  Sleep  Meditation  Hypnotic trance  Distorted perceptions from mind altering drugs Biological and Circadian Rhythms  Circadian Rhythm is a cycle connected with the 24 hr period of earth’s rotation  Cycle of wakefulness and sleep is 24 hrs long  90 min cycles run through the stages of sleep  suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) -located in the hypothalamus -stimulates the pineal gland to decrease melatonin once a person is awake 9/20 Dreams  produce imagery in the absence of external stimulation  Freud suggested that dreams are reflections of unconscious desires Sleep Disorders  Insomnia  Narcolepsy  Sleep Apnea Hypnosis  Altered state of consciousness  Hypnotic trance: induced by the hypnotist  Hypnotic suggestibility: people who are easily hypnotized Meditation  Focusing consciousness to alter relationship between self and the environment...