PSYC 200 Study Guide - Siberian Chipmunk, Circadian Rhythm, Theta Wave

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Peter Van Der Velde

Document Summary

Everything you are thinking about right now. Your awareness of your surroundings and yourself. Stream of consciousness: a continuing flow of changing thoughts. Consciousness involves: attention different areas of the brain are responsible for attention and for one"s awareness of that attention. Inattentional blindness failure to notice things around us to which we are not paying attention. Blindsight being unaware of what has reached our attention. Conscious awareness being aware of what has reached our attention: develops around 18 months, monitoring, remembering, planning. Preconscious information from your past that is stored in your long term memory and can easily be accessed: eg. Unconscious- info from your past that is stored in your long term memory, but is not easily accessible: freud a repressed memory of a significant traumatic event, freudian slips. 2 types of memory: explicit memories that we are consciously aware of, eg. Implicit memories that we are unconsciously aware of: eg.