PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Circadian Rhythm, Theta Wave, Sleep Spindle

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Consciousness social phenomenon: communication : reflection of mental process: (verbal awareness) memories, thoughts, mental utterances, symbolic expressions of mental process: (non-verbal awareness) animals, babies, people unable to speak, awareness of ourselves and the environment. Awareness allows us the assemble info from many sources as we reflect on our past and plan for pour future. Dual processing: the principle that information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and non-conscious tracks: cognitive dissociation attention. 2 types of attention: controlled/explicit: focused/needs attention (learning to drive, automatic processing/implicit: innate/not focusing/second nature (driving for 5 years) Every second our brain scoops 11 million bits of information but we consciously recognize about 40 at a time. The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus or group of stimuli. Dichotic listening (cherry, 1953: when two different messages are played at the same time and you only hear/can reproduce one called shadowing, experiment is called dichotic listening.