PSY 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Neuroscience, Visual Perception, Unconsciousness
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Chapter 3 consciousness and the two-track mind. Forms of consciousness: consciousness, modern psychologists believe is an awareness of ourselves and our environment. Brain and consciousness: how do brain cells create our unified experience, cognitive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with. Our brain waves jump about . 35 seconds before our conscious perception of our behaviour, which means that consciousness arrives late. We perceive and process more than what we consciously see (e. g. flying bird) Automaticity of everyday life (cleaning room, seeing doctor, chameleon: selective attention effect, being helpful or not, parallel/dual processing is fast. Serial conscious processing is slow, helps us solving new problems and it requires our attention: our conscious awareness processes only a small part of all that we experience, e. g. our nose has always been there. Our five senses takes in 11 million bits of information/second, of which humans consciously process about 40. Our mind"s unconscious track intuitively makes great use of the other.
