PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ryback, Bors

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

Not all animals have self-awareness, and humans only tend to develop it around the age of two. Cat seeing itself in a mirror does not seem to recognize that it is looking at itself. Place a mark somewhere on the body that the participant/animal cannot their own (e. g. forehead). Place the participant in front of a mirror. Observe whether the participant attempts to wipe the mark off itself. The libet experiment (1985) to 2 asked to dial back wanted the. Changes in electrical activity within our motor cortex can be seen up seconds prior to the desire to act. Participants are shown a dial, a button stops the dial. They are press the button to stop the dial from moving and then move the to where they intended to actually have it stop. About 0. 25 sec avg delay between button press and where they dial to be stopped. Electrical signals up to 2 seconds before the desire to respond.