PSYO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intentionality, Pethidine, Unconscious Mind

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 111
• Professor: Shirley Hutchinson

Document Summary

Consciousness: person"s subjective experience of the world and mind. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person (subjective, hard to. Problem of other minds: fundamental difficulty in perceiving the consciousness of others (e. g. , you are the only one that will ever know what it is like to be you). Judge minds based on (what has consciousness vs. what doesn"t): Experience (e. g. , pain, pleasure, hunger, anger, fear) Little experience and little agency? someone who is dying. Mind-body problem: how the mind is related to brain and body. Minimal consciousness: low-level kind of sensory awareness/responsiveness that occurs when mind inputs sensations and makes behaviour (e. g. , rolling over when asleep from being poked, driving a car?) Full consciousness: able to report your mental state; aware of the state while having the state. Self-consciousness: focuses on the self to the exclusion of everything else; evaluating yourself and your shortcoming; 18 months. Disorder of consciousness: unable to demonstrate full consciousness or self- consciousness.