PSYCH 9A- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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George berkeley: two stages are needed to understand how the mind works to interpret proximal stimuli, our senses provide raw input : sensations, i. e. : patch of green, note of piano, salty taste, touch of feather. Our minds link these sensations to provide a meaningful organization of our perceived world : associations: i. e. : a spherical patch of green above patch of brown = tree. Mind-body problem: conscious mind seems completely different from physical body, monism : mind and body are aspects of the same thing, both are mental. Inverted spectrum problem: two people see inverted colors, there may be a difference in subjective, mental experience that cannot be revealed by measurements of objective behavior. Tuesday, january 16, 2018: one cannot experience someone else"s consciousness, helmholtz" unconscious inference: much of our behavior is determined by processes of which we have no conscious awareness.
