PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: University Of Manchester, Unconsciousness, Implicit Memory
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Consciousness; awareness of sensations or ideas; can reflect on them, can report to others. Unconscious perception conscious experience unconscious action. Masked small visual targets 50 msec later. Subjects still responded correctly to target they said they could not see. Accurate movements can be made to stimuli that are not consciously perceived. The hard problem : the question of how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience (chalmers, 1994. Easy problems : - the ability to discriminate, categorize and react to simuli. The integraion of info by cogniive systems. Cogniive unconsciousness: processing of which we are unaware, but which allows us to carry out ordinary interacions with the world. Causal atribuion: reasoning about the cause to which we atribute some fact or observaion (i. e explaining the source of our thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. ) Freud: the unconscious was a separate and independent mind .
