As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Where do our thoughts come from? How is it that physical processes in the brain cause consciousness?
What determines how perception or information enters into consciousness? Is there a gatekeeper that lets only some information through?
Why do you find it easier to concentrate on some things or in some situations, rather than others?
Can we process information even if we are not aware of doing so?
Is it time to give up the Cartesian dualism for a more integrated understanding of the relationship between the physical brain and the mind based on the research since the time of Descartes?
How do brain physiology and neuroscience help to explain normal and abnormal perception, problems with attention, and issues related to consciousness? Does science point toward interventions that could help persons with issues in these areas? Does it point toward ways to enhance capacities?
Do culturally diverse populations experience perception, attention, and consciousness differently?
How do emotions impact perception and attention?
Competency 1: Analyze the evolving fields of cognitive and affective psychology as independent and interdependent domains of investigation.
Analyze the origins and evolution of theories related to perception, attention, and consciousness.
Competency 2: Incorporate theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices of cognitive psychology into professional practice.
Explain how theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices related to perception, attention, and consciousness can be applied in professional practice.
Competency 3: Incorporate theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices of affective psychology into professional practice.
Analyze how brain physiology or neuroscience is relevant to perception, attention, and consciousness.
Competency 5: Analyze how the theories and principles of cognitive and affective psychology apply to culturally diverse populations.
Explain how theories and principles related to perception, attention, or consciousness apply to culturally diverse populations.
Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
Employ appropriate written and visual communication to convey content to an intended audience.
Apply proper APA formatting and style.
