PSYC 315 Study Guide - Final Guide: Implicit Memory, Visual Cortex, Consciousness
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Cognitive unconscious: influences your thoughts and behavior: effects of the cognitive unconscious: mental activity outside of your awareness that. Reading elderly words slower walking speeds. Red background color fewer anagrams solved. Female in room with two males lower math (but not verbal) sat scores. Accuracy of cognitive introspection: products vs. Misattribution of processes: misattribute fluency to fame, misattribute familiarity to person involved in a crime, misattribute physiological effects to placebo pill, experimenter: i notice you took more shock than you average. Why do you suppose you did? : group 1 participant: gee, i don"t really know well, Distinction between conscious and unconscious processing: amnesic and blind sight patients provide evidence. Plainly influenced by memories they don"t know they have. Testing blind sight patients" perception: patients who have suffered damage to the visual cortex, as a result they are, for all practical purposes, blind. If asked what they see, they insist they see nothing.
