PSYC 100 Study Guide - Adenosine, Agonist, Melatonin

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Russell Day

Document Summary

Pattern of subjective experience, a way of experiencing external and internal events. Intimately connected with the process of selective attention: focuses awareness on some stimuli to the exclusion of others. Physiological measures: establish correspondence between bodily states and mental processes. Rouge test: chimps able to identify own image in mirror. Tested this by putting a red mark on their head and seeing if they touch it more when looking in the mirror. Conscious mind: thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events that we are currently aware of. Preconscious events: outside of current awareness, recalled under certain conditions. Ex: remembering childhood friend when someone mentions their name. Unconscious events: cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circumstances. Some unconscious context traumatic memories kept out of conscious awareness because it would arouse anxiety, guilt. Conscious and unconscious mental life complementary forms of info processing. Unconscious functions a sophisticated support service working in harmony with our conscious thoughts.