PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psych, Retina, Change Blindness

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Catherine Rawn

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Levels of consciousness: higher level: controlled awareness, strict definition, lower level: automatic responses (eq. Driving), daydreaming: altered states of consciousness: drugs, trauma, fatigue, possibly hypnosis, subconscious awareness: sleeping and daydreaming eg. priming effects, much sensory info we encounter, no awareness: knocked out, anesthetized. Our capacity for consciousness is limited: how many times did you rub your head and pat your tummy . Consciousness is the ultimate subjective measure: its not an objective version of reality. The corpus callosum: connects the two hemispheres of the brain: ** watch video from split brain patients youtube ** Selective attention: the process that controls our awareness of, and readiness to respond to, particular categories of stimuli or stimuli in a particular location. Image in retina is 2d but perceive world in 3d: goal of conscious access isn"t truth, but usefulness harder to randomly see gorilla then umbrella. Inattentional blindness vs. change blindness: a failure to perceive an event when attention is diverted elsewhere.