PSYC1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brainstem, Startle Response, Detection Theory
Document Summary
> can train people to introspect without being distracted and describe what they observe. > not aware of at the moment, but can recall and have the ability to become aware. > is inside the mind, but not aware of it. Psychodynamic paradigm was long on ideas but short on testable theories. Behaviorism (cid:523)dominant paradigm (cid:883)9(cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:495)s to (cid:889)(cid:882)(cid:495)s(cid:524) to methodological issues. When behaviorism came in, interest in consciousness when out due. > behaviorism = measuring discrete behavior, not consciousness, as it cannot be discretely observed. The role of introspection versus objective measures (cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:882)(cid:495)s onwards. > problems of measuring something which is not quite what we are interested in. > problems of hidden subjectivity (we have to interpret these results using introspection people telling us what they are feeling) (cid:494)normal(cid:495) waking consciousness different perspectives) Guided by attention and expectancies (different people have. Interpretive aspects of awareness (in perception and memory) are constructed.
