PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Occipital Lobe, Insomnia, Sleep Paralysis

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

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In the textbook, they go over a lot of drugs; but on the exam, she will only ask about cocaine and alcohol: she will still ask about general classifications of drugs. Two notion of conscious: meta consciousness: aware of being aware, thinking about the fact that you"re, klunk or unaware of your consciousness thinking. You don"t know what other people are thinking they may have a completely different reality from your own: consciousness is very subjective, problem of other minds: your own conscious and unconscious mind is different from. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person; goes along with the idea of. We think that something isn"t happening until we think about it our subjective minds tell us that it isn"t real until it happens. But what really happens is that our brain begins preparing us for an action before it happens: your conscious mind is about half a second behind your brain.