PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fusiform Face Area, The Conscious Mind, Freudian Slip

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Conscious = real b/c conscious & unconscious differentiable: but biologically conscious neural activity unexplainable. Consciousness the subjective experience of the world and of mental activity, 2 components: content of consciousness things one"s conscious of, level of consciousness one"s conscious state -ex. coma, asleep, acting consciously vs. unconsciously. Fmri can determine images viewed by brain activity pattern. Research show images house superimposed on faces see face = increase fusiform face area activity; see house = temporal cortex object recognition areas. Neural activity of monkey using joystick controlled robotic arm can directly control robotic arm w/o joystick; assimilated robot arm into brain. Variability of consciousness: william james: conscious experience = continuous stream of thoughts, floats from one thought to, Limited # thing one"s conscious of at the same time: automatic processes learned routines executed w/o much effort. Driving, walking: controlled processes slower than automatic, complex/novel situations.