PS260 Lecture Notes - Joe Camel, Episodic Memory, Visual Cortex
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Consciousness is a state of awareness of sensations or ideas, such that we can: Know what it feels like to experience these sensations and ideas. Report to others that we are aware of these sensations and ideas. As we have seen throughout the class, much of our cognition takes place behind the scenes, or unconsciously. The cognitive unconscious is the broad set of mental activities of which we are completely unaware that make cognition possible. In many cases we are aware of the products of cognition but unaware of the processes that lead to these products. Retrieving information, such as a name, from long-term memory. Seeing and reading a written word, making inferences about missing features. Recalling an episodic memory, and perhaps committing a memory error. Errors of causal attribution, the interpretations of what caused our thoughts or behavior, also demonstrate how much of our cognitive processing occurs unconsciously. This name seems familiar, so it must be someone famous.
