PSY 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Subliminal Stimuli, Change Blindness, Sleep Spindle
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Consciousness: a moment by moment subjective experience. Paying attention to your immediate surroundings, reflecting on your current thoughts. Dualism: the mind is physically distinct from the brain (descartes) Psychologists reject dualism and believe the mind and brain are inseparable. Neurons in the brain produces the contents of consciousness. But is an inaccurate test because our conscious is subjective. People can be looking at the same thing but experience it differently. The mind is a continuous stream and thoughts float on that stream. Attention and consciousness often go hand-and-hand: you can"t focus on several things at once. Automatic situations are thing people do on a daily basis that you don"t have to think about it, and thinking about it makes it harder to do. Ex: if you think about walking, it becomes harder to do. Controlled processing helps people perform in complex situations by paying attention to the steps.
