Psychology Midterm 2: Consciousness & Attention

• 1. awareness
• 2. control

• 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?

• 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)

selection due to limited resources

"shadowing'- keep subjects from switching attention to other audio by making subject verbally repeat audio

exception: when someone calls your name, you instinctively pay attention

• failure to perceive
• didn't see it

• failure to encode info
• didn't record it
• NOT forgetting