PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Availability Heuristic, Speech Perception, Problem Gambling
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To conceptualize unconscious processing, and the power it may have over our decisions and actions. We are under the impression that we take in the world far more completely and accurately that we actually do. Limits in attentional resources severely restrict what we take in. Relying on a constructive visual experience (top-down) Consequence: missing very salient elements at times. To relate several cognitive concepts (that we discussed previously in the perception, attention and memory lectures) to consciousness. The door study suggested that there are illusions in our perception. The mcgurk suggested that what we see in the context override what we hear. The rapid serial visual presentation (rsvp) suggested that we actually process the words that we thi(cid:374)k we did(cid:374)"t whe(cid:374) we are u(cid:374)ware of it: proven by eeg. The example of hemi-spatial (cid:374)egle(cid:272)t, patie(cid:374)t (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t pay atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) o(cid:374) the left side: they are not consciously aware of information that is influencing their decision making.
