PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psych 4
Document Summary
Forms of consciousness: consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Cognitive neuroscience: cognitive neuroscience: interdisciplinary study of the brain activities linked with cognition, includes perception, thinking, memory, language, link between brain and mind a mystery, but science moving forward. Brain activity shows which of 10 objects a person is viewing. Dual processing: dual processing: principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks; aka parallel processing, 2 track mind, conscious: in awareness; deliberate; slow, unconscious: automatic; supporting function; fast, example: looking at a dog. Selective attention: selective attention: the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimuli, cocktail party effect: ability to attend to one voice among many. Selective attention and accidents: can only focus on one task at a time, inattentional blindness: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere, inattentional blindness example, simons & chabris (1999) Pop out phenomenon: pop out: stimulus that draws our eye and demands our attention.
