Psychology of Consciousness
THE USER ILLUSION
Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Tor Norretranders
Penguin, 1999
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to:
• Describe the evidence that consciousness represents a minority of the stimuli that we process and is a construction of what we perceived a half second ago
• Compare the illusion of how we think our minds work with what research tells us
• Describe the amount of information our consciousness process
• Describe about intuition and the unconscious
• Review evidence of decisions made about a half second before we are aware of them
• Review psychological, information processing, and physical research relevant to consciousness
Tor Norretranders is Denmark's leading science writer and the award-winning author of more than ten books. He has hosted numerous television programs on science and established a major cooperative network of scientists and artists.