Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jill Bolte Taylor, Slow-Wave Sleep, Persistent Vegetative State

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynn Jackson

Document Summary

Consciousness subjective experience of the world and of mental activity: two components of consciousness, level of consciousness ie. coma, sleep, wakefulness, contents of consciousness what things we are conscious of. We cannot know if any two people in the world experience it in exactly the same way. Qualia the term to describe the properties of our subjective experiences (perception) Persistent vegetative state when a person in a coma has sleep/wake cycles (open eyes and appear to be aware, close eyes and appear to be asleep) that last over a one month period of longer. Minimally conscious state in which a person in a coma make some deliberate movements and may try to communicate. Levels of consciousness, paradox of specialized brain areas as well as integration, Split brain a condition in which the corpus callosum is surgically cut and the two hemisphere of the brain do not receive information directly from each other.