PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Change Blindness, Implicit Memory, Qualia
11 Apr 2018
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There are many ways to study implicit memory: this tests unconsciousness. Aware of the products of cognition, but not the underlying processes the cognitive unconscious. Iceberg analogy: tip = conscious, everything else = unconscious. Incredible complex interplay between the two that gives rise to our mental abilities. Our cognitive abilities allow us to do astonishing things, usually without being at all aware that we are doing them, or how we are doing them. How do thinks make you feel and how do you verbalize that: ex. what does red look like, red may look different to you than to another person. Hard to verbalize things you have to conscious access. Perception (cid:862) eei(cid:374)g (cid:449)ithout (cid:374)oti(cid:272)i(cid:374)g(cid:863: ex. change blindness. Perceptual errors: when reading, we often see what we think is there. Cant distinguish between true and false memories: what is memory, what is schema/post suggestion. Poor reasons for confidence in memories: we"(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot (cid:448)e(cid:396)y good at (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide(cid:374)(cid:272)e judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t.
