Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quantum Mind, Materialism, Hypnosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

Document Summary

You need to know the names in the text, but not in parentheses. Majority of questions will come from the textbook. Additional to physiological is, quantum mind (draws on physics, etc. ) Looking at memory, attention, reference (how do i know a table is a table). Experiential: how it happens, how it feels, including the feeling that anything is going on at all. There are explanatory gaps between these groups and their discourse. Hard problem of consciousness: how do we get experience out of cognitive or experiential and physiological. Course will focus heavily on experiential, less on cognitive, and very little on physiological. Consciousness 1: ability of organisms to make discriminations in the environment and then act in a bold matter on the basis of the stimuli. Behavioural consciousness 2: explicit knowledge of one"s situation when you aware that you know about your internal ability to discriminate.