PSY 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Religious Ecstasy, Pineal Gland, Neural Coding

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 201
• Professor: Paul Dassonville

Document Summary

Locked-in syndrome: fully aware of what is going on, but no way to communicate, paralyzed. Consciousness: moment-by-moment subjective experience resulting from at least some aspects of brain activity. Attention: manner in which brain manages its limited information processing capacities. Selective listening experiment: participant receives different auditory messages in one year, but is required to repeat only 1. Cocktail party phenomenon: phenomenon of being able to focus one"s auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli. Donald broadbent & filter theory: stimuli are filtered, or selected to be attended to, at an early stage during processing. Overt attention: directing attention by moving the eyes. Covert attention: directing attention without moving eyes or head or body. Change blindness: a failure to notice large changes in the environment when there is no sudden transient in the image to draw our attention to the change. Subliminal perception: any sensory stimuli below an individual"s threshold for conscious perception.