Consciousness Flashcards
States of Consciousness
Different ways of orienting to internal and external events, such as awake states and sleep states
Consciousness
The subjective awareness of mental events
Attention
The process of focusing consciousness on a limited range of experience
Selective Inattention
The process by which important information is ignored
Divided Attention
The process by which attention is split between two or more sets of stimuli
Dichotic Listening
A procedure in which different information is presented to the left and right ears simultaneously
Daydreaming
Turning attention away from external stimuli to internal thoughts and imagined scenarios
Experience-sampling
A research technique whereby participants report on the contents of consciousness at specified times
Beeper Studies
An experience-sampling technique that has provided a more natural window to the flow of consciousness in everyday life
Conscious Mental Processes
Processes that involve a subjective awareness to stimuli, feelings or ideas
Preconscious Mental Processes
Thoughts that are not conscious but could become conscious at any point, much like information stored in long-term semantic memory
Unconscious Mental Processes
In Freud’s theory, mental processes that are inaccessible to consciousness, many of which are repressed
Subliminal Perception
Perception of stimuli below the threshold of consciousness
Cognitive Unconscious
Information processing mechanisms that operate outside of awareness, such as procedural memory and implicit associative processes, as opposed to the psychodynamic unconscious, which includes information the person is motivated to keep from awareness
Insomnia
The inability to sleep
