Psychology of Consciousness
Durham
Liberal Arts :: Psychology
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2020 - Full Term (01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Term: Spring 2020 - Full Term (01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:
20
CRN: 56988
CRN: 56988
Explores questions of consciousness What is it? How does it develop? Are infants and animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? Includes a review of historical background, including the ideas of Jaynes, Paiget, James, Freud, and others. Contemporary topics may include the role of language and other representational systems, blindsight, subliminal perception, priming and other implicit cognitive phenomena, hypnosis, confabulation and attribution, dreaming, multiple personality and conceptions of self and free will, from simultaneous perspectives of phenomenology, behavior, and neuroscience. Specific topics governed by class interests. Prereq: PSYC 402; PSYC 502; PSYC 513.
Equivalent(s): PSYC 713, PSYC 713H
Only listed campus in section: Durham, Manchester
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Online with some campus visits, EUNH
Instructors: STAFF
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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1/21/2020 | 5/4/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE | |
1/21/2020 | 5/4/2020 | MW | 10:10am - 11:00am | MCC 245 |
Additional Course Details:
This is a hybrid course. It meets on Monday and Wednesday 10:10-11.
Booklist
Blackmore, S. (2018). Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford
University Press: New York.
ISBN: 978-0-19-879473-8