Chapter 5 Flashcards
phenomenology
how things seem to conscious person
the problem of other minds
how do we destinguish between a conscious person from someone who is not conscious but does and says all the same things as a conscious person
mind’s capacity for experience
pain, pleasure, hunger, fear
mind’s capacity for agency
self contorl. planning, memory
the mind body problem
issue of how the mid is related to the brain and body
“mind is what the brain does”
all thought is connected to brain activity (brain activty actuallly happens before people say they made the consious decison to move thier hand)
intentionality
directed towards an object, consiousness is always about something
unity
resistance to diversion/ability to integrate info from all of the body’s senses inot ond coherent whole
selectivity
capacity to include some obhects and not others
people tune in one message while filter out others
transience
tendecy to change
focus and attention keeps changing
minimal level of consciousness
low level kind of sensory awarness/responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs snesations and may output behavior
full level of consciousness
know and are able to report your mental state
not only thinking about things but thinking about the fact that you are thinking
self consciousness
person’s attention is drawn to the self as an object
daydreams
a state of consciousness where purposeless flow of thoughts comes to mind
mental control
attempt to change states of mind
thought suppression
trying to avioud a certain thought
rebound effect of thought suppression
tendency of a thought to return to conscisousness with greater frequency following suppresion
ironic proceses of mental control
ironic errors becuase the occur mental process that monitors erros can actually produce them
dynamic unconscious
an active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memoires ther person’s deepest instincts and desires and persons inner struggle to control these forces (FREUD)
repression
FREUD- mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts from consiousness and keeps them in unconsious
cogniitve unconscious
all the mental processes that give rise to a person’s thoughts, choice emaotions, and behavior even though not expirenced by person