PSYC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Drug Tolerance, Social Theory, Cardiovascular Disease
18 Apr 2016
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Chapter 3 - consciousness and the two-track mind. Consciousness our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Focuses our attention when we learn a complex concept or behavior. Various states of consciousness including normal walking, awareness and various altered states. Cognitive neuroscience the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory and language) Those working in the interdisciplinary field called cognitive neuroscience study the brain activity associated with perception, thinking, memory and language. Dual processing the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. A conscious, deliberate high road, and an unconscious, automatic low road . A visual perception track enables us to think about the world - to recognize things and to plan future actions. A visual action track guides our moment-to-moment movements. Blindsight a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.
