L33 Psych 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Circadian Rhythm, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Document Summary
Consciousness one"s subjective experience of the world, resulting from brain activity. Dualism the mind is physically distinct from the brain. In general, all of us can execute routine or automatic tasks that are so well learned that we do them without much attention. Controlled processing is slower than automatic processing, but it helps people perform in complex or novel situations. Shadowing a participant receives a different auditory message in each ear. The participant is required to repeat, or shadow, only one of the messages. Change blindness a failure to notice large changes in one"s environment. Freudian slip the classic mistake when an unconscious thought is suddenly expressed at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate social context. Subliminal perception the processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness. The global workspace model posits that consciousness arises as a function of which brain circuits are active.
