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Consciousness

Moment-to-moment subjective experience of the world.

Twin Studies

Research studies that compare identical and fraternal twins to understand genetic and environmental influences on behavior.

Epigenetics

The study of how environmental factors can change gene expression, affecting traits and traits can be passed to offspring.

Change Blindness

The phenomenon where individuals fail to notice significant changes in their environment due to lack of attention.

Selective Attention

The process of directing mental resources toward specific information, allowing us to focus on what is most important.

Priming

A recent experience with a stimulus makes it easier to respond to related stimuli without conscious awareness.

Subliminal perception

Perceptual processing of information without conscious awareness that has minimal effect on behavior.

Endogenous attention

Deliberate, voluntarily directed attention that focuses on specific stimuli.

Exogenous attention

Attention that is involuntarily directed by external stimuli, often a response to something threatening or significant.

Automatic processing

Tasks that are well-practiced and require very little attention to perform.

Controlled processing

Tasks that require focused attention and cognitive resources.