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GROUP 6 Consciousness and Awareness PPT
GROUP 6 Consciousness and Awareness PPT
onscio
C
& Awareness
Group-6,
Cognitive
Psychology
CONTENTS
1 Meaning
Thought suppression -
2 individual differences
3 Blindsight
Understanding
Consciousness as Levels of
Consciousness: STATES
Con
Level tent
Need for a Multidimensional Approach
understanding neural
future planning. informative.
correlates.
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Graziano and Kastner :“The machinery that computes information about other
people’s awareness is the same machinery that computers information about
our own awareness”
Free will: “the ability to make choices and to determine one’s own
outcomes free from constraints”
Behavioural evidence
sense of agency – the “feeling of being in the driving seat when it
comes to our actions”
Advantages
It is theoretically important to compare behavioural and
neuroimaging measures to identify their similarities and
differences.
Processes Involved
Blindsight is a phenomenon in
which people who are
perceptually blind in a certain
area of their visual field
demonstrate some response to Can light enter into
visual stimuli. the eye?
ETIOLOGY
Damage to
Primary visual Brain Tumour
cortex
Types of Blindsight
1 Type 1
2 Type 2
BAAR’S GLOBAL WORKSPACE THEORY
(1988)
Baar's Global
Blindsight:
Workspace Theory:
Dinesh and Abhinav
Alisha and Ananya
REFERENCES
Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. T. (2015). Cognitive psychology: A
student handbook. Psychology press. (MAIN REFERENCE)
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