PSYO 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Thought Suppression, Charlotte Selver, Unconsciousness

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 111
• Professor: Dr Mark Holder

Document Summary

Consciousness: a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. In about one in every 1,000-2,000 surgeries, the patient regains consciousness: that could cause a spiked blood pressure and heart rate to dangerous levels. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Problem of other minds: the fundamental dif culty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. Philosophers have called this hypothetical non-conscious person a zombie. Mind body problem: the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. The brain begins to show electrical activity around half a second before action: brain activity is necessary to get an action started. Brain is getting started before either the thinking or the doing. 4 basic properties: intentionally: the quality of being directed toward an object. Consciousness attention is limited: unity: resistance to division, or the ability to integrate information from all body"s senses into one coherent whole, selectivity: capacity to include some objects but not others.