Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Three Positions, Neurophysiology

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

Document Summary

Perspectives on consciousness: phenomenological/experiential, looking at a person"s experiences viewing consciousness through the lens of one"s experiences, ex. Looking at near death experiences: computational, looking at the way information is being processed in the brain, ex. Consciousness: breaks apart into four things, objective outside. Behavioural consciousness 2: contents of the conscious experience, demonstrating knowledge of situation ex. Dog looks to be experiencing feelings, but we cannot be certain exhibits bc2: ex. Subjective consciousness 2: experiential stream of events that occur subjectively for a person, ex. Thoughts, experiences, etc. occur to us in an experiential stream-like manner. Consciousness 3: the fact that there is experience in fact going on for you, sense of existence accompanying that feeling . You feel that reality is going on, you feel that being is happening. Altered state of consciousness: shifting away from an ordinary waking state. Sleep altered brain patterns, physiology: ex.