PSYC 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Circadian Rhythm, Electrooculography, Subliminal Stimuli

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Consciousness: a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Problem of our mind: the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. Experience: all that is perceived, understood, and remembered ; taken in and processed by senses, result of senses for most part. Agency: the capacity to make choices; the fine tuned abilities of the frontal lobes of the brain; abilities that make us human. Mind-body problem: the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. Dichotic listening: a task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented in each ear. Cocktail-party phenomenon: a phenomenon in which people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby. Self-consciousness: a distinct level of consciousness in which the person"s attention is drawn to the self as an object.