Psychology 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Scientism, Guided Imagery, Psychopathology
11 Dec 2014
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2) sleep and psychedelic cognitive perspective - dreaming and obes. 3) experiential perspective - unusual phenomena such as transcendence and ndes. Material vs transcendent: important to rely on data rather their predictions. Delusional vs vertical experiences: whether events occurring in people"s experiences are what they appear to be: need to learn more about introspection to determine if there are ways of discriminating between imaginary and real. Mundane vs extraordinary phenomena: scientism is a boring place where anything interesting that appears to happen can be explained in mundane terms - should"t be used as a judgemental heuristic for evaluating individual events. Meaningless vs meaningful events: research is necessary to understand the potentially symbolic interpretation of events in alterations of consciousness. Lateral vs vertical meaning: significance of the deepening meaning for those for whom it occurs. Closed vs open psyche: root of disparity concerning consciousness is in the question of whether the psyche is open or closed.
