PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sleep Spindle, Delta Wave, Sleep Paralysis
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Consciousness - moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves, our current environment and our mental processes: consists of all the sensations, perceptions memories, and feelings we are ware of at any given moment, difficult to study because it is subjective. Waking consciousness - state of clear organized alertness: front page of the mind, characterized by selective attention (our ability to focus awareness on some stimuli to the exclusion of others) Process that determines which events we"ll be conscious of: general rule: we can only fully attend to one thing at a time. Inattentional blindness - not being aware of changes in the background as our attention is to the foreground: two ways of approaching normal waking activities: (1) automatic processing. Carrying out activities without conscious attention to them (tying your shoes) (2) controlled processing. Carrying out an activity with conscious effort to direct it (taking a test) Daydreaming - lower level of awareness: form of mental drifting.
