PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hallucinogen, Stroop Effect, Morphine
21 Dec 2016
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Consciousness: ongoing awareness of our thoughts and feelings. Difference is whether something needs your conscious attention or not. Ex. driving when you first learn how to drive it takes all of your attention, but after driving for a few years now you can do it without much thought. You can do multiple unconscious tasks at once as long as they don"t interfere (breathing, walking, etc. ) Doing more than one conscious task is hard. Multitasking isn"t real we just switch between two conscious tasks. Stroop task trying to read the color a word is written in and not the word itself: difficult, because reading and seeing colors have become unconscious tasks which are out of our awareness. Consciousness is in the spotlight of awareness. Ex. if someone asks you who is running for president you can think of the answer even though you weren"t thinking about the candidates before they asked you.
