DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Load, Mental Event, Pseudoscience
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Watch focus: how do we define (un)consciousness, conscious: aware unconscious: not aware. Roy f. baumeister, e. j. masicampo, and kathleen d. vohs: phenomenal awareness: consciousness mediates between central nervous system and an experiencing agent to perform coordinated actions. What humans share with animals: conscious thought: symbolic understanding, notions of self, and reflective deliberation. Uniquely human behavior: how do we measure (un)consciousness, obtaining unconscious data. Unconscious; subliminal manipulation (undetectable stimulus), presented too quickly to be aware for example. Preconscious; liminal manipulation (temporary distraction or inattention, potentially detectable) Attentional blink paradigm (raymond, shapiro and arnell, 1992: unconscious processing. Dissociation logic: difference between what people say, what they do. Express being unaware, but act as if they were conscious. Roy f. baumeister, e. j. masicampo, and kathleen d. vohs: search for consciousness as cause of behavior. Independent variable = conscious state / act dependent variable = behavior.
