PSYC 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Descriptive Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge, Autobiographical Memory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 473
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

Document Summary

Create the sense that you are doing something that is your own consciousness and will. It has an impact on your behaviour and the world. Give you the sense of being an agent of your own will. Thoughts and feelings (including bodily sensations) and emotions. Derived from visual cues: introspection, when you experience your sense of self, where do you, a lot of people feel it behind their eyes, you can infer your own position from what is going on. If you are unique you will mention it. Self concept is centred around factors that make you distinctive: autobiographical memory. You are you, and always have been. The experience we have is that its very obvious as to the continuity of our existence and we experience ourselves as a coherent self but there is a fair enough of construction that goes into that.