PSYCH 2010 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 – Consciousness
2 Mar 2017
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Consciousness = our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Cognitive neuroscience the interdisciplinary study of the brain linked with our mental processes. Selective attention the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Inattentional blindness failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. Change blindness failing to notice changes in the environment. Your conscious mind is in one place at one time. Dual processing we know more than we know we know. Information can be processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Parallel processing (cid:271)rai(cid:374)"s (cid:374)atural mode of information processing for many functions. Regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle. Every 90 minutes you cycle through 4 distinct sleep stages. Alpha waves = slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state. Reasons we sleep: supports growth, sleep protects, helps us recuperate, helps restore a(cid:374)d re(cid:271)uild our fadi(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:373)ories of the da(cid:455)"s e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es, feeds creative thinking. Insomnia problems in falling asleep or staying asleep.
