Cognitive Psychology I - Cognitive Control, Attention, Memory, and Consciousness

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Automaticity

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Refers to automatic processing due to practice or salience, evident in the Stroop task where naming the color of an incongruent color word is slow.

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Stimulus Driven Attention

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Attention driven by external stimuli rather than internal goals.

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Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to cognitive control, attention mechanisms, working memory, and consciousness as discussed in the lecture.

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Automaticity

Refers to automatic processing due to practice or salience, evident in the Stroop task where naming the color of an incongruent color word is slow.

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Stimulus Driven Attention

Attention driven by external stimuli rather than internal goals.

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Voluntary Attention

Attention that is consciously directed towards a specific goal.

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Attentional Bias

Behavior reflects the output from different mechanisms, such as enhanced visual processing, quicker object identification, or enhanced orienting responses.

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Short Term Memory

Allows retaining information for a relatively short duration through encoding, storage, and retrieval.

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Working Memory

A form of short-term memory that allows a person to hold online, and manipulate a certain amount of information for a few seconds after it has been presented.

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Consciousness

The normal mental condition of the waking state of humans, characterized by the experience of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, awareness of the external world, and often self-awareness.

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

How do physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience?

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Social Function of Consciousness

Suggests that the subjective experience of ourselves helps to understand others

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Conscious Will

When a thought appears in consciousness just before an action, is consistent with the action, and is not accompanied by conspicuous alternative causes of the action, we experience conscious will.

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Libet Experiment

Preparatory motor activity precedes the conscious decision to move.

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Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions

The outcome in a dual-choice paradigm can be predicted from brain activity patterns up to seven seconds prior to the actual conscious decision.

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Neurobiological Correlates of Consciousness

Consciousness depends on many brain processes and rather the integration of brain functioning is crucial.