PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psilocybin, Amygdala, Nicotine

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Michele Moscicki

Document Summary

Subjective experience of the world and the mind. Psychology - the study of the mind and behaviour. Understand what it"s like to be human. Phenomenology - how things seem to the conscious person. Our fundamental difficulty in perceiving the consciousness of others. Philosopher"s zombie - can talk about experiences but doesn"t actually have any (you wouldn"t know the difference) Is my yellow the same as your yellow. Experience - feel pain, pleasure, hunger, fear, etc. Agency - self control, memory, planning, thought, etc. The mystery of how the mind is related to the body and brain. Report when you consciously decided to move. Brain activity occurs before the action activity occurs 0. 3s before the conscious decision to move. Consciousness has 4 properties related to attention: intentionality, unity, selectivity, transience. Limited attention- only focus on a small bit at one time. Selectivity: capacity to include some objects but not other.