PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anne Treisman, Glasgow Coma Scale, Colin Cherry

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: meghannorris

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After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Describe how psychologists operationalize and study consciousness. Distinguish among disorders of consciousness, and how brain imaging can help to differentiate these. Explain the role of contingency in differentiating among the disorders of consciousness. Describe the evidence for the main functions of sleep (restoration, preservation and protection, consolidation) Describe the stages of sleep, including the types of brainwave activity, and indicate how they are measured. Describe how rem differs from the other sleep stages. Describe filtering, parallel vs serial search, response bias and satisfaction of search. Describe inattentional blindness, change blindness, and the attentional blink. Perhaps you have wondered what sorts of subjective experiences they may have what it"s really like to be a dog. If you"ve contemplated these sorts of things before, then you"ve wrestled with the problems of consciousness. And you"re certainly not alone questions about consciousness have engaged philosophers for thousands of years.