PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Torpor, Dyssomnia, Parasomnia

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

Document Summary

* psychology essentially began as the study of conscious experience, via. The subjective experience of internal and external events. 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 experiments on dichotic listening can be used to study attention. (2) describe the concept of automaticity. (3) outline research on the influence of subliminal messages. * attention the internal processes people use to set priorities for their mental. * because we have a limited capacity to process information, we cannot be consciously aware. * therefore, to a large extent, the contents of our conscious experiences are the things to which functions. of everything at once. we pay attention. * a person is presented with two streams of auditory information and asked to.