SOCI 1121 Lecture Notes - Origins Game Fair, Parenting Styles, Critical Period
Document Summary
Consciousness: - our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Cognitive neuroscience: - the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognitive (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) Dual-processing: - the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blindsight: - a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it. (the act that you can see) Selective attention: - the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Your five senses take in 11000000 bits of information per second but only about. Inattentional blindness: - failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. Change blindness: - failing to notice changes in the environment. Circadian rhythm: - the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (ex. Temperature & wakefulness) that occur on a 24 hour cycle. About every 90 minutes we cycle through four sleep stages.
