PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychoactive Drug, Cognitive Development, Narcolepsy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Chapter 3: consciousness and the two track mind. Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment , helps us act in our long term interests. Congniive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain acivity linked with cogniion (includeing percepion, thinking, memory and language) Dual processing: the principle that informaion is oten simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blind sight: a condiion in which a person can respond to a visual simulus without consciously experiencing it. Selecive atenion: the focusing of conscious awareness on a paricular simulus. Innatenional blindness: failing to see visible objects when our atenion is directed elsewhere. Change blindness: failing to noice changes in the environment. Circadian rythms: the biological clock, regular bodily rythms on a 24 hour cycle. About every 90 minutes we cycle through four diferent sleep stages. Stage n1 (non rem sleep), just as you"re falling asleep. Stage n2, light sleep , no longer conscious of outside world.