States of Consciousness

Consciousness

Awareness of ourselves and our environment. enables exert voluntary control and communicate our mental states to others

cognitive neuroscience

study of brain activity linked w cognition

blindsight

condition where person can respond to visual stimulus wo consciously experiencing it

dual processing

principle that info is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.

dual processing: system 1

fast and automatically, 98%, unconscious, intuition

dual processing: system 2

conscious, slower, more volatile, subjected to conscious judgement and attitudes, 2%

parallel processing

processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously, brains natural mode of processing for many f(x)s

Selective attention

forming of consious awareness on a particular stimulus

Cocktail Party Effect

filter out and attend to only one voice even tho u hear many

Inattentional blindness

failing to see visible objects when our attention is elsewhere

Change blindness

failure to see changes in our envionment due ot attention focused elsewhere

Mastered (11)

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