PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blindfold, Cataplexy, Narcolepsy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

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Narcolepsy- opposite of insomnia (cannot stay awake: treated with medication (inhibits rem sleep, counseling/therapy, changing sleep habits, under stress falls asleep o, cannot respond, like narcolepsy, some people think you"re. We become conscious of that which is relevant. To become conscious requires additional processing: additional processing. Psychological relevance= active attention (at a cost of fatigue) Observer must choose to become aware of that which is relevant. Failure to choose results in information overload. The central executive (frontal lobe) determines features of what is relevant; stores thesein working memory (top-down proccessing) The features of all incoming stimuli (i. e. , whether attended or ignored) are automatically extracted and . Compared to those that exist in working memory. Features match: further processing is warranted (- consciousness) Passive attention: if the fire alarm goes off you become aware of it (36. Some tasks require a great deal of cortical effort while others.