PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Implicit Memory, Motor Coordination, Diazepam
21 Nov 2017
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Recall: in early days, psychology was the study of mental states. From the 1920"s - 1960s it became the study of behaviour. From 1960 the study of mental concepts began to re-emerge. Advances in neurosciences permitted measuring of brain activity during various states of consciousness ie. sleeping, dreaming, hypnosis, psychoactive drugs. Despite advance in technology, we still do not know what causes consciousness of how to produce it (in robots for example) Case studies have shed some light on complexity of consciousness and area of brain involved. Your immediate awareness of your surroundings and yourself. Everything you are experiencing right now (thoughts, sensations, memories)! Stream of consciousness - a continuing flow of changing thoughts (william james, 1890) Information processing - to make decisions, solve problems, plan actions. Survival - become conscious of internal states (hunger, thirst) which motivates survival behaviours (eating, drinking) (yet kidney does fine without our conscious awareness of filtration)
