PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cocktail Party, Visual Perception
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Chapter 3 consciousness and the two-track mind. Consciousness is similarly a fundamental yet slippery concept. Psychology: the description and explanation of states of consciousness. Neuroscience advances related brain activity to sleeping, dreaming, and other mental states. Psychologists of all persuasions were affirming the importance of cognition, or mental processes. Consciousness our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Over time, we flit between various states of consciousness, including sleeping, waking, and various altered states. Consciousness helps us act in our long-term interests rather than merely seeking short-term pleasure and avoiding pain. Consciousness also promotes our survival by anticipating how we seem to others and helping us read their minds. Selective attention the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Cocktail party effect: your ability to attend to only one voice among many. Eeg recordings confirm that the brain"s auditory cortex responds to sound stimuli even during sleep.
