PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Response Bias, Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Some believe that consciousness is a substance that is separate from physical matter, and has different properties. Those who believe in the previous statement are people who have a dualist view. This view originated from descartes, who asserted that the consciousness must depend on a substance distinct from physical matter, because it does not have properties that we ascribe to matter (doesn"t take up space, does not have mass). Others may argue that there is only one kind of substance in the universe, and that consciousness is a physical phenomenon. This perspective is known as materialism, but it may be known as physicalism or monism (the belief that only one kind of substance exists. The materialistic perspective lends itself to the scientific study of consciousness. An od for consciousness could be having subjective experiences, but that would be difficult to pose research questions for.