PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Explicit Memory, Blood Sugar, Reuptake

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Consciousness as a social phenomenon: communication, a reflection of mental processes (verbal awareness, symbolic expressions of mental processes (nonverbal awareness, awareness of mental processes (sensation, emotion, attention, memory) Consciousness as a cognitive dissociation (attention, memory) two major kinds; controlled or automatic processing limited capacity system: dichotic listening cocktail party. Inattentional blindness refers to the inability to see an object or a person in our midst. 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. Split memory: explicit memory is declarative memory and implicit is non-declarative memory, hd vs ads. Consciousness and the brain: visual agnosia (unable to recognize objects, the split brain syndrome, hypnosis. Circadian cycles: the biological clock: governed by an area of the hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn) controls body temperature, metabolism, blood pressure, hormone levels, and hunger jet lag is the result of desynchronization of the circadian rhythm.