PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stroop Effect, Preconscious, Hypnosis
10 Nov 2018
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Our ongoing awareness of our thoughts and feelings. Can do many unconscious (as long as they don"t interfere) Activation of the names of words happens unconsciously and automatically (without intent) Conflict between two different things which are activated. Unconscious processes are out of our awareness. Thus, there are things going on in our heads that we don"t know are there. Preconscious: can be easily brought into awareness. Activating thoughts or feelings without conscious awareness. Our brains have more to do than cns mind can handle: subliminal mind picks up slack. Subliminal mind as pattern detector: learn card game study, poster preference study. Body temp, heart rate, and blood pressure slowly drop. Stage 2 sleep: sleep spindles and mixed eeg activity. Slow wave sleep (stage 3 and stage 4 sleep: progressively more delta waves (stage 4 shown) Won"t think you were asleep if awoken. Minor noises won"t wake you, but still relatively easy to awaken.
