 Controls you emotions, movements, thinking and behavior  2 Parts  Central & Peripheral  Central: the brain & spinal cord  Peripheral: Nerves branching out from spinal cord

 Cells of nerve tissue through which messages travel to and from the brain  Parts of the Neuron Axon Dendrite  Cell Body Synapse 

 Hindbrain › Voluntary movements › Reflexes › Produces important chemicals  Midbrain › Brings sensory info through the rest of the brain  Forebrain › Controls body reactions to temp, hunger, thirst, & sex › Emotions › Higher Thinking Processes

 Complete the Brain Quiz Study Guide  Check Answers

 No Brainers?  b1QNN4 b1QNN4  Brain Phenomenon  HGnlMV0 HGnlMV0

 Complete the Right-Brained or Left- Brained Worksheets  Class Discussion

 Count off by 6s  In your small groups, fill in the blanks with the item your group picked out of the bag:  A Brain is like a __________________(item that you picked out the bag) because _______________________________.

 A state of awareness, including a person’s feelings, ideas, and perceptions  =qjfaoe847qQ =qjfaoe847qQ

 Different levels of awareness  Example: Sleep

 Theories: › Restorative › Conserve Energy › Adaptive process › Clear minds › To Dream

 Stage I: Lightest level of sleep › 10 min, eye rolling, twitching, “just drifting”  Stage II: Early sleep › Muscle relaxation, limited physical mobility  Stage III: Deeper sleep

 Stage IV: Deepest level of sleep › Important level, difficult to wake when in this stage, disorientation is awoken  REM sleep: Active sleep › Rapid eye movement, dreaming, every 90 min

 Human = 1/3 of lives sleeping  Amount Varies: › Newborns = 16 hours › 16 year olds = hours › 70 year olds = 5 hours  Internal Biological Clock › Light and dark patterns › Jetlag

 Complete the Sleep Disorders Chart for the rest of the period. Make sure to do front and back!

 Mental activity that takes place during sleep  Dream Content: › Often everyday activity in dreams › Large percent are negative/unpleasant › Nightmares

 the having the strong feeling that an event currently being experienced was experienced in the past  Theory: › A distorted memory from a disconnect w/short & long- term memory

 Sigmund Freud › Founding Father of psychoanalysis › Believed in solving problems through patient and psychologist dialogue › Unconscious: part of the mind we are unaware of, but strongly influences behavior

 Freud = dreams contained clues to thoughts we are afraid to acknowledge while awake  Indian tribes = dream  spiritual world  Critics? › No purpose › Mental housecleaning › Problem-solving

 Dream Diary  3 Dreams  Due Tuesday  Dream Interpretation on Tuesday  Final Project Due Wednesday!

 State of consciousness achieved by narrowed focus and heighted suggestibility  Make conscious things ppl are unaware of and unaware of things they usually notice  shifts your consciousness  Example

 Involves persuading participates to relax and lose interest in the external  Can help reduce pain  Similar to a deep sleep

 Can you hypnotize yourself? › Sometimes just thinking of an action can result in producing that action  if you can imagine that result clearly enough  Stretch your arms and follow my directions (p194)

 Learning how to control your internal physiological processes › Example: Heart Rate

 Focusing of attention to clear one’s mind and produce relaxation  3 approaches › Transcendental › Mindfulness › Breath

 Most people can benefit › Lower blood pressure › Heart rate › respiration rate  Critics › Same results as simply sleeping or relaxing

 Find a comfortable sitting position  ?v=BaMBQSsdnxo ?v=BaMBQSsdnxo  Relax and Breath Deeply, Focus on “Being” instead of “Not Thinking”