EQ: WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHM?

BELL RINGER

Psych semester 1 evaluation

Class roles

ASSIGNMENT

Keep a dream journal for the next week

Write down if anything out of the ordinary happened during the day (extreme stress, happiness, etc)

Write down the dreams or parts of dreams that you remember

BELL RINGER

Give examples of times a person is conscious and unconscious.

What is consciousness? Write a definition in your own words.

CONSCIOUSNESS

Awareness of yourself and your surroundingsConsciousness is……….

Subjective: Cannot share it with another person

Selective: aware of some things but ignore others

Divided: pay attention to two different things at once

Continuous: each moment blends into the next

Changing: Awareness shifts to other things within seconds

Multi-leveled: Ranges from an alert awareness to stupor of deep sleep

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

Regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle which corresponds to changes such as body temp., blood pressure, and hormone levels

WRITE 2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHM BELOW

1. COMPARE AND CONTRAST BODY TEMP, SLEEP, AND MELATONIN2. WHAT DO YOU THINK MELATONIN IS?

WHY DO PEOPLE EXPERIENCE JET LAG?

WHY WOULD TRAVELING EAST TO WEST BE EASIER THAN WEST TO EAST? HINT: EAST TO WEST YOU LOOSE TIME EX: IF ITS 5:00 PM AND YOU TRAVEL 5 TIME ZONES WEST IT IS 12:00PM BUT IF YOU TRAVEL 5 TIME ZONES EAST IT IS 10:00PM

STUDIES ESTIMATE IT TAKES 24 HOURS FOR EACH HOUR OF TIME CHANGE TO RESET YOUR CIRCADIAN CLOCK

For the following examples use the timezone map and

1. Calculate how many time zones you would travel through

2. How many days would it take to reset your circadian rhythm?

3. Which of the trips would you experience the most intense and long lasting jet lag?

4. Which trips would have the lease effect?

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