PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Fetus, Grey Matter, Syphilis

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

Document Summary

Cognitive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory and language) A stronger stimulus will engage in brain areas, such as those involved in language. Selective attention: the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, example the ability to attend to one voice among many. Inattentional blindness failing to see visible objects when our attention is distracted elsewhere: attention is powerfully selective, your conscious mind is in one place at a time, change blindness failing to notice changes in the environment. Biological rhythms of sleep: circadian rhythm the biological clock, regular bodily rhythms that occur on a. Dreams: a sequence of images, emotions and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind, dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities and incongruities, and for the dreamers delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.