PY 105 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Consciousness

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 105
• Professor: Scrivner- Limbaugh

Document Summary

This chapter looks at consciousness and its variations. People can be conscious of their surroundings even when they do not appear to be. Conscious experiences are associated with brain activity. Notes that conscious experiences differ from person to person. Consciousness: ones subjective experience of the world: resulting from brain activity. Dualism: states that the mind is physically distinct from the brain: most psychologists reject this. Because we all experience consciousness personally, it is subjective. They can be seen as unified and coherent. Consciousness is also affected by your actions: when you drvie somewhere on a daily basis and then you arrive and totally forgot how you got there. Automatic processing: doing things without much conscious effort. Controlled processing: paying more attention to tasks. Minimally conscious state: in between fully conscious and vegetative. They may try to communicate, some deliberate movements. Brain activity may give rise to people"s subjective experiences. Brain imagining can reveal a lot but not read one"s mind.