Home
Flashcards
Preview
Psychology Midterm 2: Consciousness & Attention
Home
Get App
Take Quiz
Create
Automatically remove your image background. Try it now!
https://remove-image-background.com
consciousness
1. awareness
2. control
Freud's view of consciousness
iceberg metaphor- conscious, preconscious, unconscious
preconsious- memories can become conscious
unconscious- taboo cannot become conscious b/c it is too painful to produce
problem
: if mind can repress unconscious, doesn't this mean unconscious is in memory?
modern view: cognitive unconscious
mental systems can operate on unconscious level
ex. perception operates outside of consciousness
do not realize that unconscious is happening (thus not motivated to repress it)
attention
selection due to limited resources
dichotic listening task
"shadowing'- keep subjects from switching attention to other audio by making subject verbally repeat audio
we control our attention
exception: when someone calls your name, you instinctively pay attention
inattentional blindness
failure to perceive
didn't see it
inattentional amnesia
failure to encode info
didn't record it
NOT forgetting
Author
kwatanabe20
ID
330058
Card Set
Psychology Midterm 2: Consciousness & Attention
Description
Intro to Psychology
Updated
2017-04-02T22:20:10Z
Show Answers
Home
Flashcards
Preview