PSYCH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Subliminal Stimuli, Brain Death, Freudian Slip
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4. 1 what is consciousness: people can be conscious of their surroundings even when they do not appear to be, conscious experiences are associated with brain activity, there are variations in consciousness, for example, sleep. People manipulate consciousness through natural methods (meditation) as well as through artificial methods (drugs: conscious experiences differ from person to person. Consciousness is a subjective experience: consciousness refers to moment-by-moment subjective experiences resulting from brain activity. Subjective nature makes it difficult to study empirically: most psychologists reject dualism and believe that the brain and the mind are inseparable. The activity of neurons in the brain produces the contents of consciousness: the sight of a face, the smell of a rose. For each type of content, there is an associated pattern of brain activity. Conscious awareness involves attention: there is a limit to how many things the mind can be conscious of at the same tome, attention: conscious awareness.
