PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Sleep Spindle, Melatonin

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Consciousness: person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Problem of other minds: fundamental difficulty in perceiving the consciousness of others. *timing of consciousness: brain activity works(eeg) > conscious wish to act > movement(emg)* Participants in experiment varied in capacity for experience (such as abilities to feel pain/pleasure) and capacity for agency (such as abilities to plan/exert self control) Mind-body problem: brain activities may precede conscious activity. The stream of consciousness flows even when the target is a constant object. Intentionality: being directed towards an object (actually listening to some(thing/one)) Unity: resistance to decision (can listen to multiple things) Selectivity: capacity to include some objects but not others. Dichotic listening: task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each ear. Focus on message must hear don"t hear a change from english to german (choose who to listen to in-class activity)