PSYC 4010 Lecture Notes - Episodic Memory, Eye Movement, Retina
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Experience of the world that you have (an awareness), you can gain some conscious control over it. Ex: being aware that someone is calling you across the world conscious experience. If you don"t have the warning or if you don"t pay attention to the warning, it takes you longer to react. If you don"t have those warning signals because you"re not paying attention because your attention is more allocated to talking on cellphone you will be slower to react. Consciousness = awareness of our experiences, of what is going on, an event, an item. Consciousness = perceive relation between oneself and environment. Consciousness = voluntary control of attention: choosing what to process or what not to process. Consciousness = being awake and responsive to environment. Consciousness of the mental world: thoughts about thoughts, intentions, wishes, emotions, think about thought in your head introspect about your own feeling, also called theory of mind .
