PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Slow-Wave Sleep, Visual Agnosia, Circadian Rhythm
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Consciousness as a social phenomenon: can we understand consciousness. Three philosophical positions about nature of consciousness. Consciousness is a natural phenomenon but also that, for various reasons, we cannot understand it. People are indeed conscious, that this consciousness is produced by the activity of the human brain, and that there is every reason for us to be optimistic about our ability to understand this phenomenon(advocated by. Consciousness is the awareness of these processes, not the processes themselves. Blindsight: the ability to interact behavior with objects while remaining consciously unaware of them. Our ability to communicate provides us with self-awareness: consciousness and the ability to communicate. The ability to communicate with ourselves symbolically gives rise to consciousness. Cheesman and merikle(1986) presented people with a ward that was either congruent or incongruent with the color of a subsequent patch of color. Stroop-like effect: consciousness and the control of behavior.
