PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Atony, Global Workspace Theory, Dazed

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

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Week 7 psych learning outcomes: describe how psychologists operationalize and study consciousness. A person is conscious when he or she is able to report his or her subjective experiences. Distinguish among disorders of consciousness, and how brain imaging can help to differentiate these. Coma: state of unresponsiveness in response to trauma; absence of voluntary movement. Vegetative state: presence of sleep-wake cycles, but absence of voluntary response to external stimuli. Minimally conscious state: some evidence of self-awareness and voluntary behavior. Locked in syndrome: full- awareness of oneself a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t; (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate (cid:448)er(cid:271)ally or (cid:373)o(cid:448)e their limbs. Blinking: method of communication: coma is a response to traumatic brain injury, prognosis of a coma patient: Brain imaging- fmri used to asses patients ability to generate responses during mental-imagery tasks. Brain imaging: we can ask patients to imagine playing tennis, measure their brain activity and compare it with a healthy control, reveals evidence of voluntary thought process- self-awareness.