PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Revolution, Automaticity, Behaviorism
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The subjective experience of internal and external events. 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 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 functions. Because we have a limited capacity to process information, we cannot be consciously aware of everything at once. Therefore, to a large extent, the contents of our conscious experiences are the things to which we pay attention. A person is presented with two streams of auditory information and asked to shadow" one of them.
