PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Taste Bud, Wine Tasting, Taste Receptor

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

Document Summary

Subjective experience of the world and the mind. Moment to moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Psychology: the study of the mind and behaviour. Understand what it"s like to be a human. No one can understand your experiences and can make you feel isolated. Our fundamental difficulty in perceiving the consciousness of others. Can talk about experiences but doesn"t actually have any (you wouldn"t" know the difference) Experience: feel pain, pleasure, hunger, fear, etc. Researchers communicated by asking people in a c0ma to think of certain things to answer yes or no. Mystery of how the mind is related to the body and brain. Report when you consciously decided to move. Brain activity occurs 0. 5s before the action. Brain activity occurs 0. 3s before the conscious decision to move! Could be evidence that brain activity determines your actions! Consciousness has four properties related to attention. Limited attention- only focus on a small bit at one time.