PSYC 2265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Metacognition, Subliminal Stimuli, Visual Cortex
22 Apr 2017
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Psyc 2265 lecture 7 perception without awareness. Consciousness: people can infer through, behavioural similarity (i. e. other people act in similar ways, physical similarity (i. e. other people are similar in basic biological and physical structure, access consciousness, manipulating representations (behaviour influence) Information processing but not necessarily aware: phenomenal consciousness, subjective awareness of what the mind is doing, monitoring consciousness (metacognition, thinking about thinking, reflecting on one"s own thinking processes, self-consciousness, general knowledge about oneself. Blindsight (weiskrantz et al. , 1974: behavioural influence by a stimulus which there is no reported visual experience, this is observed in some patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (area v1, the classic case of d. b. Subliminal messages: subliminal messages in advertising, james vicary (1957) Can we define it in an objective or subjective way: subliminal perception in normal individuals (marcel, 1983, phase 1 (the direct task) Participants were briefly presented colour names (red, blue, green, or. They were presented with a pattern mask.
