PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Muscle Tone, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Barbiturate

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Symbolic expressions of mental processes (nonverbal awareness) coma patient squeezing your hand to let the person know they can hear them, babies facial expressions showing they are consciously aware, dogs tail wagging. Each headphone channeling a different message to each ear. You have to repeat only the message from your right ear ignoring the other. You can change the speaker, language or gender of the speaker from the other ear and they would be aware of a change, but unaware of what that change was. We can follow a particular conversation even when other conversations are going on around us: in a group or around a table and able to hear your conversation, or follow the other conversations around you. Inattentional blindness refers to the inability to see an object or a person in our midst. Simons & chabris (1999) showed that half of the observers failed to see the gorilla-suited assistant in a ball passing game.