PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Dysphoria, Analgesic, Benzodiazepine

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Vessela Stamenova

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Can we understand consciousness: consciousness is not a natural phenomenon, consciousness is a natural phenomenon buy we cannot understand it, consciousness is produced by the activity of the brain; thus, we can study it. *consciousness, a variable state, is a present activity of thought processes in some form and thought itself is an activity of the brain. Rather, it is our awareness of these mental processes. Visual selective attention: two movies played at once, pay attention to one; unable to say what happened in movie they didn"t pay attention to. Corbetta et al. (1991): look at coloured triangles; look for change in speed, colour, or shape. A patient who had undergone a surgical procedure which has severed the corpus callosum, thus disconnecting the two hemispheres. Use the olfactory system; if a smell enters your left nostril, it enters left hemisphere and vice versa (not like the other sensory systems)