PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Detection Theory, Visual Search, Blindsight

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Explain the concepts of cortical lateralization of function and more generally, cortical localization of function. Explain how the split-brain operation functionally isolates the cerebral hemispheres, and evaluate how split-brain research has influenced our understanding of hemispheric specialization of function. Describe the stages of sleep, and indicate how they are measured. Explain the effects of sleep (including rem sleep) deprivation, and the possible functions of sleep (including rem sleep). Distinguish among disorders of consciousness, and how brain imaging can help to differentiate these. Describe selective attention, its importance, and research on how we attend to auditory information. Describe the differences between serial and parallel visual search. Evaluate research on visual search and its relevance for real-world search problems. Describe inattentional blindness, change blindness, and the attentional blink. Opinions differ about nature of consciousness (whether it is specific brain states or various computations performed by a system) Materialist interpretation lends itself to scientific study of consciousness.