PSYCH-AD 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Delta Wave, Worst-Case Scenario Series, Motor Learning
10 Dec 2017
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Central concept of psychology, consciousness - our awareness of ourselves and our environment. States that occur spontaneously: daydreaming, drowsiness, dreaming. Sensory deprivation: cognitive neuroscience - the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked. Selective attention - the focusing of concious awareness on particular stimulis. Inattential blindness - failing to see visible objectes when our attention is. Explicated: controlled, not mandatory, concious processing, unconscious processing, dual processing - the principle that information is consciously and the. The benefit is that parallel is quicker than sequential. This raises the questions: change blindness - failing to notice changes in the environment, circadian rhythm - the biological clock; regaular bodily rhythms that occur on. Sleep - periodic natural loss of consciousness. (but not to be confused with. Stage 2: main body of light sleep. Synaptic pruning: as morning approaches body temp rises, drops in the evening. Peaks in the day and dips in the early afternoon.
