PSY 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sleep Disorder, Intentionality, Brainstem
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Consciousness; a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Phenomenology; how things seem to the conscious person. Problem of other minds; the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. Mind-body problem; the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and the body. Dichotic listening; a task in which people wearing head phones hear different messages presented in each ear. Cocktail-party- phenomenon; a phenomenon in which people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby. Minimal consciousness; a low level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behaviour. Full-consciousness; consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state. Self-consciousness; a distinct level of consciousness in which the person"s attention is drawn to the self as an object. Mental control; the attempt to change conscious states of mind.
