PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Insomnia, Subliminal Stimuli, Psychoactive Drug
Document Summary
A person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. How things seems to the conscious person, in their understanding of mind and behaviour. The fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. The problem of other minds also means there is no way you can tell if another person"s experience of anything is at all like yours. The problem of other minds is a problem for psychological science. The issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. The first property of consciousness is intentionality, the quality of being directed toward an object. The second basic property of consciousness is unity, or resistance to division. This property becomes clear when you try to attend to more than one thing at a time. The third property of consciousness is selectivity, the capacity to include some objects but not others.
