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| the principle that information is often simutaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. |
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| Our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyondconsciousness: the subconscious self. (dictionary.com)
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| Unconscious Parallel Processing |
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| frees your conscious mind to deal with new challenges. |
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| Serial Conscsious Processing |
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| though slower than parallel processing, is skilled at solving new problems, which require our focused attention. |
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| the focusing of conscious awareness on a a particular stimulus |
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| your ability to attend to only one coice among many |
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| failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere |
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| failing to notice changes in the environment |
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| When you are asleep, as when you are awake, you process most information outside your conscious awareness. |
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| the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle. |
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| In the morning tweaks the circadian clock by activating light sensitive retinal proteins. |
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| Biological Rhythm of Sleep |
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| Sleep overtakes us and different parts of our brain's cortex stop communicating, consciousness fades. |
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| Slowed breathing and irregular brain waves |
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| Sensory experiences that occur without a sensory stimulus |
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| Sudden jerks, and movements |
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| periodic appearances of sleep spindles, bursts of rapid rhythmic brainwave activity. |
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| Large slow delta waves, go through transitional Stage 3 to the deep sleep of Stage 4 |
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Emits large slow delta waves
Sleepwalking, wetting the bed, etc |
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| Rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active. |
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| Because our biological clocks set us to sleep, otherwise we would become drowsy, moody, and deteriorate. |
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