Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Circadian Rhythm, Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Sample exam questions: which of the following is a binocular depth cue, feature detectors that respond maximally to a particular stimulus, such as, convergence, light and shadow, linear perspective d, motion parallax. Interposition a line orientation are located in the: photoreceptors in the retina, ganglian cells in the retina, bipolar cells in the retina, thalamus, visual cortex. What is consciousness: awareness of internal and external stimuli, broader than attention, levels of awareness. Jung collective unconsciousness: subjective and private, dynamic. Central to our sense of self: selective attention. Thoughts, perception mental events in our awareness: preconscious mind, unconscious mind. Outside of current awareness, but easily recalled. Normally can"t be brought into awareness: components of personality. Id instinctual sexual and aggressive drives (unconscious) Ego mediating between id & superego (conscious and preconscious) Superego internalized morals (conscious and preconscious: neural mapping of freud"s model of the mind. Richard bucke: cosmic consciousness - the psychogenesis of man. Human consciousness is evolving: stages of evolution.