PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Encoding Specificity Principle, Prospective Memory, Sketchpad

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Mind wanderers refer to people"s experiences of task unrelated thoughts. It is associated with less accurate awareness of external info and that there may even be a connection between mind wandering and creativity in some contexts. Controlled and automatic processing: the distinction between what we control about our mental processes and what just seems to happen. The search for brain activity associated with conscious experience is an extremely active area of research and theorizing. Current views range from those that suggest specific neurons are associated with distinct conscious experiences to suggestions that conscious experience is more the result of holistic procession in the brain. The electroencephalograph is a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. Beta waves: normal waking thought, alert problem solving. Alpha : deep relaxation, blank mind, meditation.