PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes -Slow-Wave Sleep, Wainwright, Basal Forebrain
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Consciousness: the awareness of internal and external stimuli. People"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts, thoughts that are not related to what they are intentionally trying to do at a given moment. Less likely to occur if the task you are engaged in is one that required significant cognitive resources. Mind wandering is associated with less accurate awareness of external info. , and that there may even be e connection b/t mind wandering and creativity in some contexts. The distinction between what we control about our mental processes and what just seems to happen. Controlled processes: judgments or thoughts that we exert some control over, that we intend to occur. Automatic processes: happen without our intentional control or effort. If people are distracted from conscious deliberation, some decisions may actually be enhanced , compared to conditions under which people have ample opportunity for conscious deliberation. Attention is the key to distinguishing between conscious and unconscious thought process.
