PSYC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inattentional Blindness, Cocktail Party, Change Blindness
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Consciousness, modern psychologists believe, is an awareness of ourselves and our environment. Brain is able to engage in dual process. Conscious deliberate (high track): minds take deliberate actions that we know we are doing. i. e. solving a problem, naming an object. Unconscious automatic (low track): minds perform automatic actions often without being aware of them. Not necessarily attuned to doing but occur nonetheless. i. e. walking. Demonstrates how face can be consciously perceived to be pertruding but we act as if it is hollow because we are at an unconscious level. We have different parts of the brain for visual actions and visual perceptions. Visual actions in acting at the unconscious level. visual perception is acting at the conscious level. The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Selective attention: focusing in one particular information. i. e. being at a noisy party and tuning into another conversation.
