PSY 0010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Memory Consolidation, Hypnagogia, Psychoactive Drug
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Section 1 conscious and unconscious: the mind"s eye, open and closed. 1 in every 1,000-2,000 surgeries, the patient regains consciousness at some point and even remembers the experience: new methods of monitoring wakefulness by measuring the electrical activity of the brain are being developed. One system uses sensors attached to the patient"s head and gives readings on a scale from 0 (no electrical activity) to 100 (fully alert: anesthesiologists use the index to keep their patient in the recommended range of 40- Consciousness: a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind: defining feature of consciousness is experience. Unconscious mind = what is not visible to the mind"s eye. The mysteries of consciousness: phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Psychologists hope to understand what it is like to be a human: to understand the subjective perspectives of the people whom they study.
