PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: One Direction, Lesion, Evoked Potential

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Claire Scavuzzo

Document Summary

Consciousness: subjective awareness of internal and external events, subjective/private: other people do not have the same access to your consciousness as you do, dynamic/ever-changing/transient: the mind moves on. The contents of your consciousness aren"t the same as they were a moment ago (day dreaming/ mind wandering: self-reflective: you appear to be the one "owning" your own experiences, unity: consciousness is resistant to division. It is hard to think of the duck and the rabbit at the same time: selective: conscious object-based attention ultimately means ignoring (or selecting out) other objects or things. Feeling cold feeling cold: the locked-in problem. Just because someone is not telling you that they are cold, and are shivering, and are seeking warmth, they could be feeling extremely cold: lesion studies. After: profane, unable to plan: association deficits. ** nachev & husain (2007) question the baseline" condition of relax to which the. Unity: beware of na ve realism, common statements regarding behaviour may not generalize.