PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subliminal Stimuli, The Cocktail Party, Cocktail Party

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Stephen Want

Document Summary

The subjective experience of internal and external events. events going on in your body but also your subjective experience of things going outside of your body. Psychology essentially began as the study of conscious experience, via introspection. Although introspection was not used during the era of behaviourism, the study of consciousness returned as part of the cognitive revolution". Setting priorities for mental functioning: attention (1) explain how attention relates to consciousness and how experiments on dichotic listening can be used to study attention. Experiments on attention to see how brain works (2) describe the concept of automaticity and give examples of it. (3) outline research on the influence of subliminal messages. info presented to quietly for you to hear it. Attention as a spotlight": there"s a lot of things you are consciously aware of in any given moment, too much info for you to be aware of all at once, so attention acts as spotlight.