PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Circadian Rhythm, Inattentional Blindness, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Consciousness can be defined in a variety of ways. Alternate definitions include consciousness as the immediate awareness of internal and external stimuli, for example, or as a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Minimal consciousness: low-level sensory awareness: the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior. Full consciousness: you know and can report your mental state. Self-consciousness: a form of full consciousness, except that in self-consciousness the person is entirely flooded with thoughts of the self. Selectivity: capacity of consciousness to include some things but not others. Transience: consciousness tends to change its focus. We make things conscious by paying attention to a few things in a teeming world. There are so (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) sti(cid:373)uli a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e a (cid:448)er(cid:455) li(cid:373)ited (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) Dual processing and the two-track mind: ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e do (cid:894)and don"t(cid:895) pay attention. Information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious levels: we ha(cid:448)e t(cid:449)o (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:374)ds(cid:863):