PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Observational Learning, Habituation, Epiphenomenon
Document Summary
When we are really attending to something, it is easy to miss other things. Some kind of entity controlling our behaviour (us) It is hard to talk about in psychology because the word is used in different ways. Definitions of consciousness: medical doctors define it as being alert have. Consciousness is directed towards something: psychologists think consciousness is what you are aware of. Don"t think we should use the word consciousness at all. Consciousness is more of a state that something has or doesn"t. Consciousness is very hard to divide conscious of one thing: a lot of these reasoning"s allow us to think about something deeper. Only certain aspects of stimulants are brought into: many people say that conscious experience is how things feel. It is difficult to keep consciousness from moving at a given time consciousness: transience. Familiarity without knowing where it comes from (a qualia)
