PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stroop Effect, Frontal Lobe, Hindbrain
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The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is activated during concious control tasks. Subjects asked to name the ink color in the stroop task below have difficulty when the word name and color are different o o o o o o. This color-naming task was associated with activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Our concscious awareness is limited in capcity and we are aware of only a small amount of stimuli around us at any one time. Attension is the process by which we focus our awareness. Subliminal perception influence awareness then rate a neutral stimulus. Notion that breif exposure to sub-threshold stimuli can. Study: subjects are shown aggressive or positive stimuli and. Subjects shown a first rated positive while subjects shown b rated more negative. Information-processing view can be extended to analyses of unconcious processes. Notion is that many brain mechanisms operate in parallel. Some of these mechanisms operate outside of the level of conciousness.
