PSYC 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inattentional Blindness, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Deprivation

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100A
• Professor: Martin Smith

Document Summary

Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and the environment. We have our normal, waking awareness, but consciousness can also occur or in altered states. Spontaneously altered states like daydreaming, drowsiness and dreaming. Physiologically induced states like drug-induced hallucinating, organsm, and food or oxygen starvation. Some are psychologically induced like sensory deprivation, hypnosis and mediation. Cognitive neuroscience: interdisciplinary eld that studies the brains activity linked with cognition in the cortex based on cortical activation patterns (including perception, thinking, memory and language) Studies showing unresponsive patients can communicate by thinking of di erent scenarios when asked a question (ie. playing tennis = yes, lights up a speci c area and walking around the house = no, lights up a di erent area) Dual processing: the idea that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. Blindsight: condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.