PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caffeine, Codeine, Barbiturate

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

Consciousness: psychology began as study of consciousness (awareness of our self & awareness of our environment) Psych turned to study of behavior by 1960s; after 1960s psychs started recognizing importance of studying cognition & neuroscience helps psychs now more easily study brain activity during sleeping, dreaming & other mental states. Dual processing: (cid:862)two-track human mind(cid:863)- (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious deli(cid:271)e(cid:396)ate (cid:862)high road(cid:863) & u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:862)low road(cid:863) Conscious info enables us to exert voluntary control & communicate mental states to others. Much of everyday thinking, feeling & acting occurs outside our conscious awareness. Unconscious parallel processing enables us to take care of routine business while sequential processing is best for solving new problems. Selective attention: at any moment, awareness focuses on only a limited aspect of all that we experience. : cocktail party effect: ability to attend to only one voice among many. multitasking distracts brain resources allocated to driving: brain activity decreases average of.