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Conscious Thought, Unconscious Thought (Blind Sight (Results from damage…
Conscious Thought, Unconscious Thought
Unconscious reasoning
“This name seems familiar, so it must be
someone famous.
-D.B. developed a tumor in occipital cortex.
-After removal, D.B. could not see anything
in the left half of the world in front of him.
-D.B. insisted he could not see items, but he
could guess their identity and location correctly
Consciousness
is a state of awareness of
sensations or ideas,
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Framing effects (how many people were
saved or how many people died?) of a problem-solving set are largely unconscious
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Our unconscious judgments and inferences
are fast, efficient, and reasonable
Action slips
When trying to do something different, you
end up doing what is normal or habitual
Executive Control
Needs things it can do, actions it can initiat
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metacognitive skills
Monitoring and controlling own mental processes
Metamemory, Metacognition useful for control during test
taking, for example, Metamemory: includes beliefs about memor
neural correlate
is an event in the
nervous system that occurs at the same time as, and may be the biological basis of, a specific mental event or state.
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