PSYCO104 Study Guide - Justin Bieber, Sleep Deprivation, Cogito Ergo Sum
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Awareness: cogito ergo sum (i think, therefore i am, rene descartes argued that we can be certain of our existence by virtue of the fact that we can reason. Place a mark on part of animals body it cannot see without reflective surface. Observe whether the animal attempts to wipe the mark off itself. We use this in infants to see if they are capable of self-recognition (put a red make-up on a babies face: attention. Attention is selective (if we are only looking for the passes the white team makes, we will not see the moon-walking bear ) Kind of like a reptile: visual neglect, people who perceive the world just fine but seem incapable of responding to it properly. They behave improperly in the world. (when asked to draw a picture they don"t draw one side of it. : not as straight forward as one half of your visual field you cannot respond to.
