PSYC 100 Midterm: PSYCH100_Week7

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Topic 1: consciousness: evaluate what it means to be conscious. Topic 2: sleep: describe the possible functions of sleep, identify the characteristics of consciousness. Topic 3: attention: identify and evaluate how well psychology contributes to our understanding of consciousness. Dualism: the philosophical belief that reality consists of two distinct entities: mind and matter (body) Materialism: the philosophical belief that reality can be known only through an understanding of the physical world of which the mind is a part. Physicalism: the view that everything that exists is no more extensive than its physical properties. Monism: the view that only one kind of substance exists. Operational definition: a scientific definition of a phenomenon that allows us to generate testable hypotheses about it to measure it in some way. Neural correlates: minimal neuronal mechanisms required to produce a specific conscious precept. Coma: a state of extreme unresponsiveness in which an individual exhibits no voluntary movement or discernible sleep-wake cycles.