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PS 1301: General Psychology Section A, CRN 10328 Lectures Tuesday/Thursday 945-11am in ATT 105 Instructor: Dr. Mario Baldassari, mbaldassari@stmarytx.edu , @ MarioBaldassari Office hour Thursdays 11-noon in CT 353.

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  1. PS 1301: General PsychologySection A, CRN 10328Lectures Tuesday/Thursday 945-11am in ATT 105Instructor: Dr. Mario Baldassari, mbaldassari@stmarytx.edu, @MarioBaldassariOffice hour Thursdays 11-noon in CT 353

  2. Before beginning the lecture audio, I recommend you do one of these Mindfulness Exercises to get an experience of consciously processing something you might not normally think about. http://marc.ucla.edu/mpeg/01_Breathing_Meditation.mp3Then check out these thoughts on the status of mindfulness research from 538https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/i-was-a-meditation-skeptic-until-i-tried-to-make-my-case/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

  3. Final exam is 3-5:30 on May 8Assignments up on Canvas. Access? Questions?Modular reading schedule also up.If not receiving Announcement emails, see me

  4. Learning Outcomes By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: • Express the uncertainty in dividing conscious from unconscious processing • Use priming as an example of the thin line between the two • Define and describe the limitations of attention, including Dan Simons’ various studies and demos

  5. Conscious processing • Anything you actively do • Presence of ‘mind’, active thought, mental experience • STOP and think: What are some things you do that require you to consciously process something?

  6. Conscious processing • Anything you actively do • Presence of ‘mind’, active thought, mental experience • What are some things you do that require you to consciously process something? • Read • Drive • Conversation

  7. Unconscious processing • Anything going on without your awareness • Try to come up with a couple ideas. Anything that goes on inside your mind or body without you having to actively think about it.

  8. Unconscious processing • Anything going on without your awareness • Ideas? • Blinking, breathing, heart beating • Memory consolidation • Something you thought about earlier today • How do you think bringing something typically unconscious like breathing into conscious processing (a la mindfulness meditation) might affect the brain? How if you do it once? What about if you did it every day for 8 weeks?

  9. Deliberation without attention effect • Sometimes stopping conscious processing can help you find a solution • 2006 Science paper on whether more detailed or less detailed decisions can benefit from deliberation without attention • When people are presented with too many options or too much information, we either can’t decide or make a suboptimal choice

  10. Fig. 1. Percentage of participants who chose the most desirable car as a function of complexity of decision and of mode of thought (n = 18 to 22 in each condition). ApDijksterhuis et al. Science 2006;311:1005-1007 Published by AAAS

  11. Fig. 2. Difference in attitude (on a scale of –25 to +25) toward the desirable and undesirable car as a function of complexity of decision and of mode of thought (n = 12 to 14 in each condition). ApDijksterhuis et al. Science 2006;311:1005-1007 Published by AAAS

  12. Dual processing • Both constantly going on • A great example: Blindsighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwGmWqX0MnM • Think like train tracks • Visual perception track lost • Visual motion track remains

  13. Priming • I encourage you to read more about priming in the textbook.

  14. Damaged processes often inform psychologists about how intact processes work • Like blindsight • Lesions, missing connections, disorders • Recommend reading Sacks if you’re interested

  15. Damaged processes often inform psychologists about how intact processes work Aphasia examples from TED

  16. Attention • Directed consciousness • Think about being at a party • You can tune out all the other conversations and focus on yours • But you also can hear things like your name even when said quietly and across the room

  17. Simons examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLB228A1652CD49370&v=vJG698U2Mvo Baseball! http://www.businessinsider.com/science-major-league-fastball-brain-reaction-time-2016-4 Dan Simons

  18. Simons, D.J., & Chabris, C.F. (1999). Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28, 1059-1074.

  19. Inattentional Blindness • Looking in a different place or for a different thing can make an otherwise very smart person miss a critical detail • One type: Change blindness

  20. Inattentional Blindness • You may think that experts in the field would be less susceptible to inattentional blindness, but no

  21. Thursday • Sleep and Drugs • Chapter 3, or Modules 8 & 9

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