PSYC 2310 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 – Psych 1100.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

State of consciousness a pattern of subjective experience, a way of experiencing internal and external events. Altered state of consciousness refers to variations from our normal waking. Consciousness: our moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment; consciousness involves selective attention o ongoing thought, perceptions, and feelings y subjective and private y dynamic (ever-changing) y self reflective and central to our sense of self y. Intimately connected with the process of selective attention. Self report in which people describe their inner experiences y. Insight into a person s subjective experiences, but that are not always verifiable. Psychological measures establish the correspondence between bodily states and mental processes y objective but can not tell us what a person is experiencing subjectively. Behavioral measures including performance on special tasks y must sill infer the person s state of mind. Nonconscious processes influence behaviour studies of placebo effects, split-brain patients, subliminal perception, and phenomena that you will encounter in upcoming chapters all indicate.