CH6

Question 1

conciousness

Answer 1

all sensations and perceptions incoorperoted

Question 2

split brain

Answer 2

• copus cut
• left brain for language right for spatial awareness
• explain diagram

Question 3

parts of conciousness (5)

Answer 3

1. content of conciousness
   - subjective expeirneces of ext and int world

• most brains functions beyons awareness (medulla homeostasis)

2. states of conciousness
   - arousal and attention, being aware of information
   ex:
   -spontaneous ,
   -physiological,
   -psychological,
   -drug induced (name examples)

Question 4

Attention

Answer 4

process of selecting what to prioritize from vast amount of info coming in at any time

or (“The internal process that selectively sets mental priorities for processing”)

depends on
- attention captivated/noticed depends on goals experiences and state of mind of individual (finding freind in crowsd)

passive attention
- bottom up, sometimes automactic

active attention
- top down: driven by goals
- searching for keys on a clustered table

Question 5

selective attention and stimulus salience

Answer 5

• attend to one source of infor while simultaneously ignroing another stimuli (bright light in dim scene)
• stimulus salience: low level bottom up qualities of a scene that infleunce how we direct attention
• means your attention has been CAPTURED (divereted from elesewhere and focused on soemthing)
• stimulus slainece could be yellow flower on black background

Question 6

role of topp down process in attention

Answer 6

how selective attention is guided

of you watch a lot of football your better at noticing changes on the field, and where to focus your attention

Question 7

the cocktail effect and dichotic listeing task

Answer 7

• with selective attention. at a party person can be talking and suppress ignore all info going on around them to attend to convo

not all info blocked (if someone called your name out across the room youd turn)

• dichotic listeing task (1950): proved that specific kinds of unattended information are processed and can later be recalled (gender of speaker)

Question 8

divided attention

Answer 8

• simultaneously attened to two or more tasks at the same time
• not good at this
  expeirice can increase multitasking (only when one task is automatic) like listeing to music and typing)

-autoamitic (performance not hindered by other tasks
- not all automatic behaviours are equal (predictablity plus consequences can vary)

-driving: driving is automatic

Question 9

inattentional blindness + inhibition

Answer 9

brain does inhibition. actively reducing processing of some information while brain attends to specific task

Question 10

basketball passing video

Answer 10

miss gorrilla, no idea how many passes

Question 11

flicker task

Question 12

chnage blindness and change detection (give examples)