PSY BEH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Limbic System, Franz Mesmer, Prefrontal Cortex
25 Apr 2016
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Consciousness: moment by moment awareness of ourselves, our thoughts, and our environments. Introspection: the process of looking within to observe ones own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. The inverted spectrum problem: there"s often no way to ensure that your words mean the same thing as anyone else"s words. Introspection is limited because there are many things going on in our mind that we just are not aware of (unconscious events) Cognitive unconscious: the mental support processes outside our awareness that make our perception, memory, and thinking possible. You want to recall a past event, the cognitive unconscious provides you with the information you need while keeping the support machinery appropriately in the background. Brain damage: blindsight the ability of a person with a lesion in the visual cortex to reach toward or correctly guess about objects in the visual field even though the person reports seeing nothing. Patients can see but theyre not aware of seeing.
