PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Glasgow Coma Scale, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Bodymind

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

Document Summary

Dualism (cannot be tested: reality/humans consist of 2 entities (mind + body) typically in religion. Materialism (can be tested measurable: reality known only through the physical world (mind included, only one kind of substance (matter, consciousness is a physical phenomenon. Physicalism (can be tested measurable: everything is nothing more than its physical properties. Monism (can be tested measurable: only one kind of substance exists. Neural correlates: minimal neuronal mechanisms required to produce a specific conscious precept, areas of brain involved in producing certain kinds of conscious experience. Blind sight: ability to interact with objects while remaining aware of them, people with damaged visual cortex pathways have no visual experience despite being able to accurately perform tasks involving vision. Fully conscious (using language to report own mental state) Brain produces no signals, no autonomic nervous activity. Coma: early on after trauma resolves to awareness, extreme unresponsiveness (no voluntary movement, or discernible sleep-wake cycles) Brain death: irreversible unconsciousness no neurological activity/brain function.