PSYC 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Consciousness: consciousness: a person"s subjective experiences of the world and the mind. Consciousness is not merely awake, but relates to what one is experiencing when being alive or dreaming vividly. It is required to be human: phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person understanding what it means to be human, problem of other minds: fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. People judge minds according to the capacity for experience and agency. There is no clear way to distinguish a conscious person from someone who may simply be acting conscious. The mind and the body are not thought of one unique, whole thing: the brain"s activities precede the activities of the conscious mind. Brains depict electrical activity before experiencing a conscious decision to move. Intentionality: the quality of being directed towards an object. Consciousness is always about something: unity: a resistance to division.
