PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

Document Summary

What is consciousness, conscious awareness involves attention. Chapter 4: attention: conscious experience is usually unified and coherent. There is a limit on how many things the mind can be conscious of at the same time. Attention and consciousness are not the same but often go hand in hand. Controlled processes are slower than automatic processes but helps people perform in complex or novel situations; effortful; conscious attempts to process information; focused attention to the task at hand. Interference is greatest within one sense but there still is interference across senses. Attention is really two processes; focus limited resources on relevant information and block out irrelevant information. Presents that no single area of the brain is responsible for general awareness. Failures of awareness: your brain fills in blanks based off of expectations, inattentional blindness, you focus on a task, it is cognitively demanding; you are so focused you can miss things in your environment.