PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychoactive Drug, Cognitive Neuroscience, Mind
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Chapter 3 - consciousness and the two-track mind. Cognitive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception thinking, memory, and language). Self-awareness; the ability to think about self. Having free will; being able to make a conscious decision. A person"s mental content, thoughts, and imaginings. Psychologists define as: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Some states occur spontaneously: daydream, drowsiness, dreaming. Some are physiologically induced: hallucinations, orgasm, food or oxygen starvation. Conscious high track: our minds take deliberate actions we know we are doing, example: hitting a ball, learning how to ride a bike. Unconscious low track: our minds perform automatic actions, often without being aware of them, examples breathing, walking, developing fears, memories, riding a bike after you have already learned, reading. The high road or conscious track, in this case known as the visual perception track. Judging the size and distance well enough to put the mail in the slot:
