PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Medulla Oblongata, Delta Wave
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Cortex and consciousness tasks: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is activated during conscious control. Subjects asked to name the ink color in the stroop task below have difficulty when the word name and color are different. Orienting function toward the environment(fight or flee) Control of the content of consciousness(limited control of attention) I will think about this issue but not that one . Subliminal perception awareness: notion that brief exposure to sub-threshold stimuli can influence, below consciousness awareness, study: subjects are shown aggressive (a) or positive (b) stimuli. And then rate a neutral stimulus (c) Subjects shown panel a first subsequently rated the boy in panel. Information-processing view can be extended to analyses of unconscious processes: notion is that many brain mechanisms operate in parallel. Some of these mechanisms operate outside of the level of consciousness. Are efficient and rapid (but would worry for no reason) It is theorized that,: consciousness is distributed throughout the brain ( don"t really know.
