PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Hypnic Jerk, Theta Wave, Alpha Wave

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Imagery: consciousness aids survival by helping to, constrict the surplus of info that is available to your senses, selectively store the info that will be most important later, make decisions reflecting long-term goals. Attention: process of concentrating train of thought on specific features of external or internal states, while excluding features of other aspects of environment or self, what do we know about attention, resources are limited. Performance suffers if you attend to too many things at once. Talking on the phone, applying eye-liner and driving over a mailbox: we have some control over it. We have some choice in ur selection of what gets our attention. Playing an instrument and walking across a football field. Listen to lecture and text a friend about a weekend party: attention must be maintained over time in states of arousal and vigilance. Watchkeeping activities: continuously monitor a situation in which significant, but usually infrequent or unpredictable, events may occur.

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