PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Visual Cortex, Automaticity, Peyote

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Consciousness refers to different levels of arousal and attention, the content of your current thoughts and internal states, and your subjective awareness of internal and external events. Conscious experience: conscious content: the subjective experiences of your internal and external world, (cid:862)se(cid:374)se of self,(cid:863) drea(cid:373)s, pla(cid:374)s, a(cid:374)d day-to-day perception of space and time, states of consciousness: different levels of arousal and attention. Attention: process of selecting information from the internal and external environments to prioritize for processing, internal process that selectively sets mental priorities of processing. In the real world, atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) is ofte(cid:374) dire(cid:272)ted (cid:271)y a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s goals, expertise, and state of mind. Divided attention: multitasking, when we simultaneously attend to two or more tasks at the same time, automaticity: refers to fast and effortless processing that can be accomplished without conscious thought like walking and talking at the same time. Inattentional blindness: occurs when we are engaged in one task and completely miss other information.