PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hypnic Jerk, Unconscious Mind, Subliminal Stimuli

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. People judge minds according to the capacity for experience (ability to feel pain, pleasure, hunger, consciousness, anger, or fear) and the capacity for agency (ability for self- control, planning, memory or thought) Issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. Brain activities precede the activities of the conscious mind. Brain showed electrical activity before the person"s conscious decision to move (brain becomes active more than. 300 milliseconds before participants report they"re consciously trying to move. Intentionality: equality of being directed toward an object. Unity: resistance to division, or ability to integrate information from all body senses into one coherent whole. Selectivity: capacity to include some objects but not others. Dichotic listening: people wearing headphones hear different messages in each ear. Mind must make decisions about which pieces of information to include/exclude (filter)