PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Morphine, Narcolepsy, Social Influence
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Forms of consciousness: consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Dual processing: dual processing: principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks; aka parallel processing. 2 track mind: conscious: in awareness; deliberate; slow, unconscious: automatic; supporting function; fast, example: looking at a dog, conscious: it"s a lab, unconscious: form, movement, distance, color. Selective attention: the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus: cocktail party effect: ability to attend to only one voice among many. Selective attention and accidents: can only focus on one task at a time. Inattentional blindness: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed else where. Inattentional blindness example: simons & chabris (1999) Half of the observers failed to see the gorilla-suited assistant in a ball passing game. 1: change blindness: failing to notice changes in the environment. Pop out: stimuli that draw our eye and demand our attention.
