PSY 12000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Cocktail Party, Psy, Circadian Rhythm
13 Aug 2016
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Imagine how something in the future will turn out. Attention - the internal processes that set priorities for mental functioning. Brain doesn"t shut off everything else just doesn"t spotlight it. In the past, students at least knew when they checked out to a daydream. Now, as we switch between tasks, brains are aroused to perform several tasks, and we have illusory sense that we must be performing them all well! The fast and effortless processing that requires little or no focused attention. If one task fails to interfere with the other, it is not under conscious control. Messages so hard to detect, they totally bypass conscious awareness. Visual neglect damage to right parietal lobe of cerebral cortex produces tendency to ignore things appearing toward left side of body. Transition from sleep to waking is an example of a circadian. Lightest sleep some claim thoughts are simply drifting.
