Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Circadian Rhythm, Visual Agnosia, Unconscious Mind

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

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Intimately connected with the process of selective attention selective attention focuses conscious awareness on some stimuli to the exclusion of others. Traumatic memories) is kept out of conscious awareness because it would arouse anxiety, guilt, or other negative emotions: nonconscious processes influence behaviour, ex. The cognitive viewpoint: cognitive psychologists reject the notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed conflicts, they view conscious and unconscious mental life as complementary forms of information processing notes. Controlled vs. automatic processing: controlled (effortful) processing the voluntary use of attention and conscious effort, ex. It can have serious negative consequences in certain situations (ex. Collision rates triple when people talk on cellphones) Presenting people with nouns that ranged from strongly negative to strongly positive. Consciousness and the modular mind: the mind is a collection of largely separate but interacting information-processing modules that perform tasks related to sensation, perception, memory etc.