PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes -Eyewitness Identification, Cholecystokinin, Vocal Folds

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Conscious mind contains thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we are currently aware. Preconscious mental events are outside current awareness, but can easily be recalled under certain conditions. Unconscious events cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circumstances. Freud unconscious = reservoir of unacceptable desires and repressed experiences. Cognitive psychologists unconscious = information-processing system. Controlled (effortful) processing the voluntary use of attention and conscious effort. Automatic processing little or no conscious effort. More often in routine actions or well-learned tasks. Disadvantage reduce our chances of finding a new way to approach problems. Automatic processing facilitates divided attention: the ability to perform more than one activity at the same time. Regulated by the brain"s suprachiasmatic nuclei (scn), located in the hypothalamus. Melatonin: relaxing effect on the body (higher at night) Free-running circadian rhythm 24. 2 24. 8 hours. Seasonal affective disorder (sad) is a cyclic tendency to become psychologically depressed during certain month of the year.