PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Delta Wave, Mental Event, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Meredith Chivers

Document Summary

Learning objectives: understand scientific approaches to comprehending consciousness, be familiar with evidence about human vision, memory, body awareness, and decision making relevant to the study of consciousness, appreciate some contemporary theories about consciousness. The term consciousness can denote the ability of a person to generate a series of conscious experiences one after another. Includes the whole range of mental contents open to an individual. Consciousness can also refer to the state of an individual, as in a sharp or dull state of consciousness, a drug-induced state such as euphoria, or a diminished state due to drowsiness, sleep, neurological abnormality, or coma. Conscious experience: the first-person perspective of a mental event, such as feeling some sensory input, a memory, an idea, an emotion, a mood, or a continuous temporal sequence of happenings. Awareness: a conscious experience or the capability of having conscious experiences, which is distinct from self-awareness, the conscious understanding of one"s own existence and individuality.