PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stroop Effect, Sleep Disorder, Sleepwalking

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

But we don"t know what consciousness is in its self. Animals don"t always have control over their instinctive actions like we have the ability to do (we don"t always use it either) We have something called internal dialogue: full of the core beliefs we have ourself (always on) Allows us to use personal experience to inform us about our choices (used against instinctive behaviour) Weapon focus: attention goes towards object vs face of person holding the weapon. Our attention isn"t always under our conscious control all of the time. Stroop task: the left hemisphere creates interference w/right hemisphere when reading words as the colour they appear in. Cognitive biases: tell us what to pay attention to and what not to (different for everybody) dependent upon their experience. Attention is a skill that can be improved through practice. Consciousness allows us to have control over our choices (sometimes interferes our instinct to our peril)