L33 Psych 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Parietal Lobe, Gestalt Psychology, Flashlight
12 Dec 2018
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Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Cognitive revolution: tried to find a computer metaphor for the mind. During normal consciousness, we selectively attend to and process limited information. Selective attention: using attention like a flashlight to focus in on what we need. Conscious vs. unconscious dual processing in the mind. When you hear your name across the room but don"t hear any other conversations. Otherwise known as unilateral neglect, this disorder involves an injury to the right parietal lobe, which inhibits spatial relations. There is no ability to attend to the left side of space. This is depicted in these drawings, and in other self portraits. Asking which house is better when there is a fire in the left section of one, someone with this issue will say that they do not care which house they will live in. But when they are prompted to choose one, they always pick the one without the fire.
