People

Question 1

Descartes

Answer 1

proposed that the human body is a machine made of physical matter but that the human mind or soul is a separate entity made of a “thinking substance”

Question 2

James

Answer 2

described consciousness as a “stream”

Question 3

Wegner

Answer 3

asked participants to not think about a white bear for 5 mins while they recorded each participant’s thoughts aloud into a tape recorder. also asked to ring a bell if the white bear came to mind. thought about the bear once per min. thought suppression didn’t work and instead produced returns of the unwanted thought. became oddly preoccupied with the bear when asked to deliberately think about the bear.

Question 4

Gardner

Answer 4

stayed up for 264 hrs and 12 mins. Only slept 14 hrs and 40 mins and awakened essentially recovered.

Question 5

Freud

Answer 5

(on dreams) thought unconscious desires, manifested content is what we see and symbolic content represents what we really want.

Question 6

Hilgard

Answer 6

taught a hypnotized person the populations of remote cities and suggested they forget the study session. still could give the answers despite not remembering where they learned it.