Psychology 3139A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Null Hypothesis, Reductionism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3139A/B
• Professor: Karen Hussey

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Philosophy study of what is real and what is true sets out rules of logic to create conditional reasoning. -providing positive evidence that is unbiased, further testable by others, untestable framework. Inference q /not p / not q (this creates an invalid form) / p the null hypothesis. Clearly we understand that the physiological aspect is the brain (neurons firing) and our consciousness is the mind, the troubles lies to find out how they fit together and how they fit together and if they are one substance. Wakefulness- easier to assess, do it just by looking at somebody. Patients in comas, sometimes their love ones ask them to squeeze their hand if they can hear them. Shriver her husband had a trial about the fact that she was not conscious and aware although she looks as though. Use fmri: looking at brain activity to establish if they are or aren"t conscious.