PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Addiction, Thought Suppression, Reuptake
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Consciousness is a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Other sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology, have the great luxury of studying objects, things that we all can see. Psychology studies objects, too, looking at people and their brains and behaviors, but it has the unique challenge of also trying to make sense of subjects. Consciousness can refer to the state of being awake and alert. There was a time where doctors made jokes about patients while operating on the patient, a study showed that if you did say a lot of negative things around the patient, they take a longer time to recover). If the behaviour has changed of a function of the presence of the rabbit we can say it has been aware of the rabbit; however, the dog may not be aware of being aware of the rabbit).
