CAS PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Necker Cube, Thought Suppression, Unconscious Mind

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Stuart Phillips

Document Summary

5. 1 conscious and unconscious: the mind"s eye, open and closed phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person problem of other minds: the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. No way to tell if another person"s experience of anything is at all like yours. People judge minds according to 2 dimensions: Capacity for experience: feel pain, pleasure, hunger, consciousness, anger, fear. Capacity for agency: ability for self control, planning, memory or thought mind body problem: issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. Descartes- separate but we know that they are connected. Brain"s activity precedes the activity of the conscious mind. Intentionality: quality of being directed toward an object. Selectivity: capacity to include some objects but not others. Cocktail party phenomenon: people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby. Dichotic listening: people wearing headphones hear different messages in each ear.