PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Visual Cortex, Sensory Deprivation, Visual Perception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Psychology (beginning definition): the description and explanation of states of consciousness, study of consciousness or the mind. But during 1st half of 20th century, psychologists led to observations of behavior due to behaviourism (early 1900s) 1960s psychology defined as science of behavior (no mention of consciousness) After 1960 researchers began studying consciousness with hypnosis, drugs, meditation and affirming the importance of cognition. Consciouness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Allows us to assemble information from many sources (past and present) Helps us act long term and promotes survival by anticipating how we seem to focuses our attention during complex behavior others. Over time we flit between different states of consciousness (waking and altered states) Evolutionary psychologists say consciousness offers a reproductive advantage. 2 functions of consciousness: control function, monitoring function. Fantasy-prone personalities: fantasize about 50% of the time, this accounts for 4% of the population. States physiologically induced: hallucinations, orgasm, food starvation. States psychologically induced: sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation.