PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Benjamin Libet, Necker Cube, Sleep Deprivation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Finding: some rare unconscious patients have brain responses to conversation. In benjamin libet;s experiments, the participant was asked to move fingers at will while watching a dot move around the face of a clack to mark the movement at which the action was consciously willed. Consciousness has four basic properties: o o o. Intentionality: being directed toward an object: unity: resistance to division. Selectivity: capacity to include some objects but not others. Dichotic listening: task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each ear. Cocktail party phenomenon: people tune in one message even when they filter out others nearby: transience: tendency to change. Full consciousness: consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state. Self consciousness: distinct level of consciousness in whish the person"s attention is drawn to the self as an object.