Chapter 3

PSAT 10/15/2014
9:00am – 12:30pm 10th/11th grade: PSAT testing
9th grade: Fitness Gram/College Career Presentation
12th grade: college visit, work on college apps at home, library w/Ms. Szabo
12:30pm Bell rings for 1st lunch/5th period
12:30 – 1:10pm First Lunch / 1:15 – 1:50pm 5th period or
12:35 – 1:10pm 5th period / 1:10 – 1:50pm Second Lunch
1:55 – 2:35pm 1st period
2:40 – 3:25pm 3rd period
3:30 – 4:15pm 7th period

• Journal prompt: Dual processing
• Sleep Log assignment due Monday 10/20
– Video: The Mind Awake and Asleep with worksheet
• Psych Sim: Sleep
• Drugs chart
• NOTICE: Vocabulary optional for Chapter 3;
– quiz for Chapter 3 10/20

p. 87 Prompt
What is dual processing?
How does driving a car involve both conscious
(explicit) and unconscious
(implicit) processing?
• 1.2 Distinguish between processing that is conscious
(i.e., explicit) and other processing that happens without conscious awareness (i.e., implicit).

Consciousness, modern psychologists believe, is an awareness of ourselves and our environment.

Our conscious awareness processes only a small part of all that we experience. We intuitively make use of the information we are not consciously aware of.
Inattentional blindness
Test your awareness

Inattentional blindness refers to the inability to see an object or a person in our midst.
Simons & Chabris (1999) showed that half of the observers failed to see the gorilla-suited assistant in a ball passing game.

Change blindness is a form of inattentional blindness in which two-thirds of individuals giving directions failed to notice a change in the individual asking for directions.
© 1998 Psychonomic Society Inc. Image provided courtesy of Daniel J. Simmons.

Sleep – the irresistible tempter to whom we inevitably succumb.
Mysteries about sleep and dreams have just started unraveling in sleep laboratories around the world.

• Studying the Effects of Subliminal Stimulation on the Mind
Freudian unconscious

• The art of misdirection

• Journal entry: Video: The Mind Awake and
Asleep
• Psych Sim Sleep (Homework)
• Psych Sim Your Mind on Drugs (Homework)
• Next class 10/20:
– Sleep log Due
– Drug Chart Due
– Take-home quiz Chapter 3

SEVENTH PERIOD NEW SEATING CHART
• Journal entry: Video: The Mind Awake and Asleep
• Psych Sim Sleep (Homework)
• Psych Sim Your Mind on Drugs (Homework)
• Next class 10/20:
– Sleep log Due
– Drug Chart Due
– Take-home quiz Chapter 3

7 th period Innovation Station
Lauren Wilks Jacob Butler Madison
Costley
Jenny Do Jake Erb
Madeline
Sands
Kennedy
Ketcham
Natalee Dunn
Hannah-Joy
Mach
Chelsea Payton Linh Pham
Hannah Rose
Garner
Laura
McDonald
Clark Gilchrist
Kelly McKay
Meg Green
Ryan Miller
Joshua Rangel Mason Rausch Abby
Rodriguez
Makayla
Fabian
Jenipher
Huynh
Devin Nguyen
Anarra
Whitcher
Casey Thorsen Jordan Seibert Mauricio Tellez Kathryn
Schneider
Brandon
Wavering
Richard Frazier
Jared Tobin
Jeffrey Brand

Peer grading Journals
Sleep logs due today
• Journal prompts: 1. sleep debt 2. dreams
– (postponing hypnosis questions)
• Dream interpretation
– Psych Sim Activity REM sleep
– Psych Sim Activity Drugs
• TAKE HOME QUIZ

Learning Objective:
• Characteristics of sleep p. 97 Read in “Why Do We
Sleep” about sleep debt.
1) What is sleep debt?
2) In the last two weeks, did you have a sleep debt?
How did it affect you?
If you did not have a sleep debt, how do you manage to get an effective amount of sleep?

• 2.5 Compare theories about the functions of dreams.
p. 107
What are the critical
considerations for the five major dream theories?
• Freud wish-fulfillment
• Information processing
• Physiological functioning
• Activation synthesis
• Cognitive development

• Describe hypnosis and controversies surrounding its nature and use.
Prompt: p. 110-111 a) Summarize the social influence argument that hypnosis is not an altered state of consciousness. b) Explain Ernest Hilgard’s theory about hypnosis and consciousness. hypnosis

Those who practice hypnosis agree that its power resides in the subject’s openness to suggestion.
Can anyone experience hypnosis?
Can hypnosis enhance recall of forgotten events?
Yes, to some extent.
No.

Can hypnosis force people to act against their will?
Can hypnosis be therapeutic?
Can hypnosis alleviate pain?
No.
Yes. Self-suggestion can heal too.
Yes. Lamaze can do that too.