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Consciousness

1/31/11. Consciousness. Agenda. You can still turn in your papers! Consciousness Learning Objective: Explain consciousness Split brain Learning Objective: Discuss what spit-brain research reveals about the hemispheres of the brain Variations in conscious experience

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Consciousness

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  1. 1/31/11 Consciousness

  2. Agenda • You can still turn in your papers! • Consciousness • Learning Objective: Explain consciousness • Split brain • Learning Objective: Discuss what spit-brain research reveals about the hemispheres of the brain • Variations in conscious experience • Learning Objective: Discuss the ethical issues surrounding consciousness and comma

  3. The Mind & Consciousness • Consciousness – _________________of the world and of mental activity • Qualia • Psychologists study: • The __________ of consciousness • The __________ of consciousness • Differentiate between doing things consciously and unconsciously

  4. Figure 4.2 One difficult question related to consciousness is how people experience qualia, the phenomenological percepts of the world. For instance, does red look the same to everyone who has normal color vision?

  5. Splitting the Brain Splits the Conscious Mind • Split brain – a condition in which the _______________ is surgically cut and the two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other • Differences in right and left hemisphere function • Left: dominant for ___________ • Right dominant for ___________ • Interpreter

  6. Variations in Conscious Experience • Consciousness and coma • Full consciousness • Minimally vegetative state • Persistent vegetative sate

  7. For Next time… • Email us (psych101.2011@gmail.com) questions you have about SLEEP, our topic for Wednesday • Read pgs. 149-158

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