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23 March Material Type: Notes; Professor: Steiner; Class: General Psychology (GT-SS3); Subject: Psychology; University: Colorado State University;
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23 March Exam 2 Mean 65. Standard deviation 13. Consciousness Awareness of ourselves and environment Serial processing One thing at a time, in sequence Parallel processing Multiple things at once Waking unconsciousness Conscious processing is serial Dual processing Conscious and unconscious Automaticity Things not consciously noticed Influence behavior
Priming and automaticity Lexical priming → behavior change Scrambled sentence task Interrupted more when primed with rude words Walked slower when primed with elderly words Selective attention Focus conscious awareness on specific stimulus Receive 11 million bits of information per second Can process only 40 Cocktail party effect In a loud environment, name said quietly can be noticed Inattentional blindness Distracted, cannot see other things Sleep Natural periodic reversible loss of consciousness Circadian rhythm (found throughout nature) Zeitgeber (light resets internal clock) Awake → stage 1 → stage 2 → stage 3 → stage 4 → stage 3 → stage 2 → REM Awake β waves while processing
Earlier cycles shorter Dreaming Wake up during or right after – remember dreams Paralysis during sleep Sleep deprivation Sleep requirements Sleep debt (must be paid off within 3 nights) Sleep disorders Insomnia Inability to sleep
