PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Circadian Clock

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Consciousness = our awareness of ourselves and our environments. Cogniive neuroscience = the interdisciplinary study of the brain acivity linked with our metal processes. Dual processing = the principle that informaion is oten simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Selecive atenion = the focusing of conscious awareness on a paricular simulus. Cocktail party efect = your ability to atend to only one voice among many (let another voice speak your name and your cogniive radar, operaing on the mind"s other track, will instantly bring that voice into consciousness) Talking on the phone while driving: your selecive atenion will shit back and forth from the road + phone. At the level of conscious awareness, we are blind to all but a iny sliver of the immense array of visual simuli constantly before us. Inatenional blindness = failing to see visible object when our atenion is directed elsewhere: ex. Video of 6 white-shirted vs. black-shirted men passing a basketball.