PSYC 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sleep Deprivation, Cocktail Party, Sensory Deprivation

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

Document Summary

Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment: helps us cope with novel situations, acts in our long term interest. Changes of consciousness: spontaneously, day dreaming, drowsiness, dreaming, physiologically induced, hallucinations (drugs, mental disorders, sleep deprivation, orgasm (spontaneously sometimes for women, food/oxygen starvation, psychologically induced, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation. Cognitive neuroscience: interdisciplinary study of the brain activity liked with our mental processes (including perception, thinking, memory & language) Dual processing: information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks: hight road (explicit) - consciously aware of our surroundings, low road (implicit) - much of our everyday thinking/feeling/acting/etc that happens outside of our conscious awareness. Blindsight: process of dual processing in which a person can respond to a visual stimuli with out actually experiencing it. Parallel processing: processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously. Sequential processing: requires full focused attention to solve new problems. Selective attention: consciously focusing our awareness on particular stimuli (ex.