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| an attribute of the mind related to awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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| Who wanted to eliminate consciousness from studying? |
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| the strategic allocation of our limited mental resources |
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| ability to focus on one source of information and ignore others |
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| inability to detect another stimuli |
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| ability to perform multiple tasks at the same time |
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| bottleneck model, we can only detect on stimuli at a time; wrong idea |
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| Moray's Cocktail Party Effect |
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| interesting messages in the unattended channel sometimes grab your attention; happens especially when your name is heard |
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| Treisman's Switching Effect |
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| subjects continue to shadow the message even after it had been switched to the "unattended ear" |
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| occurs even with simple stimuli and simple response; problem isn't perceiving or responding but "central" |
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| occur without intention; does not give rise to conscious awareness (walking); does not interfere with other mental activities (parallel processing) |
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| Automaticity is good because it allows us... |
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| to focus on more important things; to make it possible to perform exceedingly dull tasks w/o going insane (assembly line) |
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| Automaticity is bad because.... |
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| it is difficult to stop automatic processing that is irrelevant to the task and distracting |
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| difficulty concentrating, sustaining attention for long periods of time; sometimes associated with hyperactivity; treatable with meds and training |
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| people don't notice objects in one visual field due to damage to the opposite side of the brain |
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| Object-Based Visual Neglect |
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| miss left side of the object |
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| Space-Based Visual Neglect |
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| did not see the object; can be fixed by turning head to look |
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| Mistakes made by people with Visual Neglect |
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| eat from one side of the plate; run into furniture; shave one side of face; deny problem |
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| below the threshold of awarness |
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| you are unaware of stimulus but brain detects and identifies it |
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| you are unaware of stimulus but brain detects and identifies it |
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| Can subliminal perception influence our behavior? |
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| No, only expectations matter. |
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| What does a lack of sleep cause? |
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| deteriorated immune system, function and concentration; accidents; emotionally irritable |
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| daylight savings effect on sleep; more sleep= less accidents |
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| Annual, 28-day, 24-hour, 90-minute |
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| we experience seasonal variations in appetite, sleep and mood |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder |
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| mood disorder where the individual becomes depressed in the dark wintery months; more prominent in the North |
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| Circadian Rhythm; 24-hour cycle that varies our alertness, body temperature and growth hormone secretion |
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| we go through 5 stages of sleep in 90-minute cycles |
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| strong mental engagement; low amplitude, high frequency; beta waves |
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| relaxing but awake; large amplitude; low frequency; alpha waves; meditating person |
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| light sleep; high amplitude, low frequency theta waves; includes day dreaming |
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| Sleep Spindles and K Complex |
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| we respond to external stimuli without being consciously aware; happens in stages 1 and 2 |
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| deepest sleep; large amplitude and low frequency delta waves |
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| increased heart rate, darting eyes, twitching; low amplitude, high frequency like in the awake-aroused state; more likely to be dreaming during REM |
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| during cycle ____ decreses and ____ increases |
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| Step 4 decreases; Step 5 REM increases |
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| 9-14 cps; relaxed state; large amp, low freq |
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| 15-30 cps; aroused state and REM; low amp, high freq |
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| 5-8 cps; stages 1&2; high amp, low freq |
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| 1.5-4 cps; stages 3&4; large amp, low freq |
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| How many dreams have negative emotional content? |
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| What is the most common dream theme? |
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| Failure- being attacked, pursued, rejected or stuck with misfortune |
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| How prevalent are sexual dreams? |
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| rare; 1 in 10 for men; 1 in 30 for women |
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| Who do men dream of more? men or women |
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| Who do women dream of more? men or women |
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| Sigmund Freud's ideas on dreams |
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| provide psychic safety valve to discharge unacceptable feelings; "unfiltered" version of everyday thoughts; learn more from dreams that just talking to a person |
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| wish fulfillment; consolidation- sort, sift an fix day's experiences; physiological function- stimulation to develop and preserve neural pathways; cognitive development |
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| Activation- Synthesis Theory |
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| suggests brain engages in a lot of random neural activity; dreams try to make sense of this activity |
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