PSYCH 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Debt, Rush Hour
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The subjective experience of the world resulting from brain activity. Driving familiar routes with low traffic: controlled processing. Driving in a new city during rush hour ex2. Deliberate movement and communication are possible: persistent vegetative state (unconscious month+) Conscious but no external signs of consciousness (except eyelids) Damage in motor control areas of the brain stem. Can recover fully or may have complications: ghost boy. Recovered but cannot speak or walk: jean-dominique bauby. Imaging studies (fmri- reads minds: monti, et al (2010) 1) 54 coma patients asked to imagine walking through a house or playing tennis. 5 patients were able to willfully show brain activity. Takes information and delivers false explanation to conscious awareness ex1. Vicki clapping then saying she clapped for gazzaniga ex2. Points at two things: shovel and chicken then says you need a shovel to clean out the chicken shed : language, sequential ex1. reading one letter at a time. 2)right hemisphere experiences the world: spatial ex1.
