PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inattentional Blindness, Sleep Spindle, Cognitive Neuroscience

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Christopher Niemic

Document Summary

Fundamental concept: jane: content of thoughts, feeling; adaptive value and advantage of consciousness experience. A shift in focus: consciousness is hard to observe; hard to quantify. Psychology is a scientific study of behavior (1920) 1960 cognitive revolution refers to understanding behavior instead of predicting nowadays focus on states of minds; seek neuro undertraining of effects. Evolutionary psychology: all of our psychological expris involved in the reason of why and how we are; adaptive to advantages; help people survive; enable people to act on interest. Presuming long term goals and outcomes + ignore short term pain/disa. Cognitive neuroscience: examines how specific activities in the brain is linked to mental process. A localized view: specific neuro actives is responsible for our stream of consciousness. A holistic view: give rise to brain consciousness: dual processing two minds. -- slow form of information; observe/allow voluntary controls or behavior. --handle many types of information at same time: selective (in) attention.