PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Unconsciousness, Hindbrain, Virtual Reality
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William james: consciousness is a constantly moving stream of thoughts , feeling and emotions. Consciousness can be viewed as our subjective awareness of mental events. Functions of consciousness: monitoring mental events, control: consciousness allows us to formulate and reach goals, consciousness may have evolved to direct or control behavior in adaptive ways. Cortex and consciousness: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is activated during conscious control tasks. Subjects asked to name the ink color in the stroop task below have difficulty when the word name and color are different. This color naming task was associated with the activation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Attention: our conscious awareness is limited in capacity and we are aware of only a small amount of stimuli around us at one time, attention refers to the process by which we focus our awareness, three functions. Orienting function towards the environment (avoiding threat but looking for reward)
