PSY 1101 Chapter 3: Psych

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Our awareness of ourselves/mind (subjective experience -internal stimuli) and our environment/world (external stimuli) William james ongoing stream of mental activity . Awareness: allows us to assemble information from many sources as we reflect on our past and plan for the future, allows us to focus our attention when we learn a complex concept or behaviour. Consciousness: helps us act in our long-term interest (by considering consequences) rather than merely seeking short-term pleasure and avoiding pain, promotes our survival by anticipating how we seem to others and helping us read their minds. Some states occur spontaneously: daydreaming, drowsiness, dreaming. Some are physiologically induced: hallucinations, orgasm, food or oxygen starvation. Some are psychologically induced: sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation. Cognitive neuroscience: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with our mental processes relating specific brain states to conscious experiences (including perception, thinking, memory, and language: strong stimulus . Engage other brain areas (language, attention, memory)