PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Thought Suppression, Pineal Gland, Cocktail Party
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Consciousness: a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind- defining feature of consciousness is experience for humans. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Problem of other minds: the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. Mind/body problem: the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and the body. Rene descartes: the human body is a machine made up of physical matter but the human mind or soul is a separate entity made up of a thinking substance". Mind has an effect on the brain and body through the pineal gland (an endocrine gland) 3 properties of consciousness: unity, selectivity and transience. Shown through dichotic listening: in which people wearing headphones are presented with different messages in each ear consciousness filters out some information. Cocktail party phenomenon: people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby: transience: the tendency to change.
