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What is consciousness?
Information about it in psychology 101.
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
What is consciousness?
Consciousness: |
A personas subjective experience of the mind and the external world |
Your conscious perception is subjective |
Your conscious perception is the content of your experience |
Unattended ear
People cannot report the contents of the message in an unattended ear, but |
- They know that there was a message |
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- They know the gender of the speaker |
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- Some superficial nature of the speech |
Blindsight
Some people lose their vision due to damages to their primary visual cortext |
Some find a second sight: |
Somehow their unconscious mind guides their behaviour correctly. |
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Conscious perception is limited
Although you see all these things you are only consciously aware of a few things you see. |
Binocular rivalry
Two dissimilar images are presented simultaneously to each eye and your conscious perception alternates |
Divided attention
Many believe you are not paying attention to many tasks simultaneously, but instead rapidly switching your attention |
Expectations: |
There are some tasks you can do with little attention |
Attentional blink: |
- A brief slow-down in mental processing immediately after progressing another event |
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- Your brain has limited resources for paying attention |
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Selective attention
Attending to one thing while ignoring the others |
You only consciously experience the content of the text you pay attention to |
When you try to ignore the many of the things and events around you to focus on one of them |
The stimuli you try to ignore are distractions that must be eliminated or excluded |
The mental process of eliminating those distractions is called filtering or selecting |
Disorders of visual attention:
Hemispatial neglect: |
Damage to one hemisphere |
Deficit in attention to and awareness of one side of the visual field as if one part of the world were not there |
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