PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Corpus Callosum, Autonomic Nervous System, Hypnosis
2 Oct 2018
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Findings claim that mocha lattes may boost attention span and reduce anxiety. Creates causal claim for correlational study, which only indicates association. Ppl who drink mocha lattes happened to have high attention spans and less anxiety+fatigue; doesn"t mean mocha lattes caused this. Data may have been manipulated to make certain implications encouraging the consumption of mocha lattes. Some things grab our attention w/o our control. We can also choose what we focus on. E. g. in an experiment, ppl were so focused on giving directions that they didn"t realize the person they were speaking to changed halfway through. Conscious content: subjective thoughts + feelings abt the world in the moment; what you"re thinking abt. State of consciousness: state of mind; emotions, arousal, instinctive feelings; awake vs asleep. Corpus callosum (massive bridge of axons) connects the hemispheres and allows info to flow between them.
