PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Slow-Wave Sleep, Circadian Rhythm, Delta Wave

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Chapter 3: consciousness and the two-track mind (pp. Dual processing- the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blindsight- a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it. A visual perception track enables us to think about the world to recognize things and to plan future actions. A visual action track guides our moment-to-moment movements. Consciousness sometimes arrives late to the decision - making party selective attention the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. inattentional blindness failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. Selective inattention- focusing attention on some part of our environment. Basketball layers while a gorilla passes by unnoticed. change blindness. In laboratory experiments, viewers didn"t notice that, after a brief visual interruption, a big coke bottle had disappeared, a railing had risen, or clothing color had changed.