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Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition. Unconscious Perception Selective Attention. Objectives: Be able to. Discuss the differences in process between subjective and objective thresholds. Define subliminal perception. Define subliminal activation. Examples of Unconscious Cognition.
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Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition Unconscious Perception Selective Attention I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Objectives: Be able to Discuss the differences in process between subjective and objective thresholds. Define subliminal perception. Define subliminal activation. I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Examples of Unconscious Cognition • Highly practiced “automatic” acts - driving a car • Without Mental Effort • Without ability to remember details of what happened • Monitoring of background conversations I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Two Senses of Unconscious • Outside of Attention • Lack or Failure of Introspection I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Outside of Attention • Consciousness as the selective aspect of Attention • Limits of cognitive analysis of registered, but unattended stimuli? • Memory residue? I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Lack or Failure of Introspection • Inability to report an experience validly • Verbally unreportable experiences I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Levels of Analysis • How smart is unconscious cognition? I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Subliminal Activation • Subliminal Semantic Activation • Objective and Subjective Thresholds I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Subliminal Semantic Activation • Present a word subliminally • Affects recognition of other words presented above threshold • Affects spelling of other words presented above threshold I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Measuring Thresholds • Objective thresholds • Subjective thresholds I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Objective Thresholds • present a word • present a number of choices • Participant must choose one of the choices • Forced Choice - like multiple choice test • None of the Above is not allowed • Yields a low threshold I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Subjective Thresholds • Present a word • present choices or not • Allow “I don’t know “ responses • Yields a higher threshold I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Threshold for Subliminal Semantic Activation • Between Objective and Subjective Thresholds • Semantic activation also works very well above threshold • Is there Subliminal Semantic Activation of Multi-word sequences?? • How could you know? I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Discussion Question 11 • Compare and contrast subjective and objective thresholds. Explain how they are important in subliminal perception. I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Discussion Question 12 • What does Greenwald mean by subliminal activation and what does he say are the necessary conditions for subliminal activation to occur? Discuss. I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition
Objectives: Be able to Discuss the differences in process between subjective and objective thresholds. Define subliminal perception. Define subliminal activation. I 5S Subliminal Perception: Unconscious Cognition