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Midterm 3
Conscious and Unconscious Processes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mental processes one is aware of, Less than 5% of information processed by the brain. | Conscious Processes |
| All mental processes that one is not aware of. | Unconscious Processes |
| What is not actively being paid attention to? | Filtered sensory information, automatic behavior, non activate declarative memories, motivations |
| What cannot be paid attention to | Autonomic sensations and motor movement, non-declarative memories, unknown motivations, etc.. |
| Unconscious Processing of visual information | Blindsight |
| Unconscious Processing in Right hemisphere | Split brain experiences |
| Processing of sensory information is unconscious unless actively paid attention to | Inattentional Blindness |
| We are aware of very little sensory inforamtion | Inattentional Blindness |
| Can subliminal priming change us? | No cannot make us do something we really don't want to do. |
| Hand performs action without conscious direction | Alien hand syndrome (can be cause by damage between motor cortex and pre-frontal cortex. |
| What are 3 factors that create the illusion of conscious will? | Priority Consistency Exclusivity |
| thought of event precedes the event | priority |
| thought of the event matches the actual event | consistency |
| No other obvious explanation for the event, other than conscious willing it to be (last factor not always necessary) | Exclusivity |
| Who studied magical thinking about shooting basketballs? | Pronin, Wegner |
| During a winning streak in games of chance, most people feel some willful control over winning. | Gambling |
| Why can't we control our conscious? | Because is hard and requires much more effort than automatic processes. |
| The conscious mind processes information serially? | One piece at a time All information processed in working memory |
| The unconscious mind processes information in parallel | all at once does not occupy working memory each bit of information is combined into a general impression |
| Conscious processing best for? | Information of low complexity - that can all be contained in working memory Problem solving, planning for the near future |
| Unconscious processing best for? | Information of high complexity Forming general impression(gut feeling) Trust your gut - you may not consciouly know the right decision |
| Common mental shorcuts | Heustics |
| The easier and more vividly something can be imagined, the more probable it seems | Availability Heuristic |
| What is the word to described when we often assume that the right answer will be the one that best matches our original expectations? | Representative Heuristic |
| What is it call when compulsive gamblres tend to believe in "fate," which they believe turns random events (card games, slot machines) into non-random events | "gambler's Fallacy |
| "This is fate, so I better keep playing while the cards are hot" | Compulsive gamblers |
| Letting mirror neurons take over | Beginners luck |
| Conciously trying to control normally unconscious actions | choking under pressure |
| What is it call when the councious mind processes information "serially"? | One piece at a time All information processed in working memory. |
| What is the theory of Unconscious Process? | The conscious mind processes information serially The uncouscious mind processes information "in parallel" |
| The uncouncious mind processes information "in parallel" | All at once does not occupy working memory Each bit of information is combined into a general impression (gut feeling) |
| Most common signs of a heart attack? | Shortness of breath Breaking out in a cold sweat Neusea Light-headedness |
| When you think about heart attack, what first comes to mind? | men and chest pain |
| What is it call when once the answer is chosen, we often don't think about how likely it actually is? | Seize and freeze strategy |
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