PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Necker Cube, Cocktail Party, Charlotte Selver
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Consciousness: a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person. Problem of other minds: the fundamental dif culty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. People judge minds according to the capacity for experience and agency. Mind/body problem: the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and the body. Consciousness has four basic properties: intentionality: being directed toward an object, unity: resistance to division. Performance of a skill that has been practiced repeatedly that eventually is executed with little or no direct attention. A task that requires participants to say the ink color in which words are printed. The words spell names of colors that are not congruent with the ink color. Demonstrates the strong tendency for words to be recognized automatically: selectivity: the capacity to include some objects but not others.
