PSY 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, The Cocktail Party, Sleep Disorder
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Consciousness is our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Cognitive neuroscience is the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with our mental processes. Dual processing is the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blindsight is a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it. The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. The cocktail party effect- able to tune things out but can selectively refocus. Not paying attention to everything; chose to not listen to certain things. Inattentional blindness- failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. Change blindness is failing to notice changes in the environment. The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle. Rem sleep is rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid.
