PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-9: Narcolepsy, Memory Consolidation, Cognitive Development

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Description and explanation of states of consciousness. Up until 1960s: become more about behaviour. What? study of brain activity linked with our mental processes (perception, thinking, memory, language) It relates specific brain states to conscious experiences. Conscious experience is from synchronized activity across the brain: weaker stimulus: will trigger localized visual cortex then fade, stronger stimulus: will trigger other brain areas (those involved with language etc ) Dual processing: information is processed and organized on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blind sight: person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it. Visual projection track: enables us to recognize things and plan future actions. Visual action track: guides moment to moment movements. Most of our everyday thinking operates outside our conscious awareness. You consciously experience a decision to do an action before you do it. Unconscious parallel processing is faster than conscious sequential processing.