PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Detection Theory, Brain Death, Glasgow Coma Scale

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Psych notes week 7: neuroscience 3: consciousness and sleep. To ask scientific questions about consciousness, it is important to have an operational definition (specific definition of a phenomenon that allows us to generate testable hypotheses about it to measure it in some way) of consciousness. A common operational definition of consciousness is that a person is conscious when he or she is able to report his/her own mental state. Common measures of consciousness include the ability to remember a stimulus long enough to report on it, giving a simple verbal report (e. g. , saying that you are aware of a stimulus) Its contents at any given moment correspond to the conscious experience that you are having. Many researchers are interested in uncovering the so-called neural correlates of consciousness: minimal neuronal mechanisms required to produce a specific conscious precept. Researchers attempt to discover which neural circuits in the brain are involved in producing conscious experiences of different types.