PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Calcarine Sulcus, Think Different, Alpha Wave
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Story: ken parks; kill parent in laws in sleep. What is consciousness: a brief history: early psychologists: no agreement, consciousness: awareness of internal and external stimuli, moment to moment awareness of ourselves and environment. Private others cannot directly our reality (vice versa) Self-reflective mind is aware of its own consciousness. They are attending to the information but not conscious of it. Blindsight - not conscious of dot pointing to. Hit to back of brain at occipital lobe. Area that gets damaged is called calcarine fissure. Do not have conscious access to see but brain it able to sense the motion of the light on the wall. Li et al. (2007: rate the likeability of people, subliminal order, sweet smells; rate face higher, bad smell; higher, participate not aware of this, ask why do we behave the way we do. Does the absence of conscious thought = the unconscious: term unconscious .
