PSYC 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Muscle Tone, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Flashlight
Document Summary
Course: introduction to psychology as a natural science. Lecture 22: attention; introduction to sleep (variation in consciousness) Provides solutions to problems such as perceptual complexity and motivational complexity. Humans, but not other animals, can solve motivation complexity by dealing with the effect of delay on choice. All organisms, except humans, will choose the sooner, smaller reward if available. Decision-making requires weighing different options in the mind. Personal dilemmas could include deciding whether to get married, go to graduate school, or join the service after college. Many challenges require ability to entertain competing possibilities in your head. These challenges involve ambiguity, multiple viewpoints, complexity, weighing of present and future consequences. Humans make humans aware of complexities that other organisms are not aware of. There are varieties of unhappiness and perplexity (freud, ptsd, There is a large market for ameliorating consciousness/happiness. Attention is consciousness as a tool for solving problems.
