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1 Week 1 Consciousness Response Basilia D. Gonzalez PSY:1020: Intro to Psychology Ohio Christian University Prof. Lorna Canter 10/2/23

2 Week 1 Consciousness Response In the video, the man showing us the trick is telling us to pay close attention and that he is going to show “us something that is illegal.” I think this is to further your attention on his hands and what he is trying to show at the time. The kind of processing that is apparent while watching this video is sequential processing, which is the first track in our two-track mind. It is when you are giving your full attention to one thing. This is something we are actively and consciously doing. On the other end, the second track is all the things that are body and brain do on “auto- pilot” i.e. breathing, blinking, etc. It is said that most of our movement is 80-90% involuntary (Myers & DeWall, 2019, p. 50). This kind of processing is parallel processing. The unconscious movements are said to be faster in nature than conscious ones. During the video, we are using our sequential processing to only focus on his hands and what they are doing directly in front of us. Because of this, we do not see any of the things happening in the background. The narrator mentioned at one point that there were 8 different things that changed in the background. I, personally, did not catch one thing that changed. I was too focused on him and how he was moving his hands. Selective attention could also come into play here, I suppose. We are only taking a small portion of what is being shown and paying attention to it; not noticing any of the things happening in the background or our peripheral vision. There are many times when I am driving and then I get to my destination and I am literally like “How did I get here?” Because, I go into auto-pilot the entire time and not realizing everything that is happening around me. Selective attention comes into play here, as well, I think. I am only focused on the road ahead of me and how to get there that nothing else is in my view and then I get there, and I don’t remember exactly how I got there. It is hard to explain on paper and through words. Honestly, hearing it out loud now, sounds really dangerous. You really should be more of a “defensive

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