THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
CONSCIOUSNESS
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It can be measured by scientists
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It’s used to construct theories
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It cannot be seen, touched or measured directly
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It is a theory that psychologists use to diagnose people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Psychological constructs are used to understand or explain things that we believe exist but cannot see, touch, or measure in any way. Consciousness is a psychological construct because it is believed to exist, but we are unable to physically measure it, so descriptions are ‘constructed’ to explain it.
Detailed explanation-2: -We cannot directly detect the consciousness of another person, and so a variety of external behaviors are used to infer the presence of conscious states.
Detailed explanation-3: -The fact that we cannot find the actual conscious experience while measuring brain activity is because we’re measuring from the wrong cognitive frame of reference. According to the new theory, the brain doesn’t create our conscious experience, at least not through computations.
Detailed explanation-4: -EEG can be used to measure either ongoing brain activity, or that evoked by an external stimulus.
Detailed explanation-5: -Initially proposed by Giulio Tononi in 2004, it claims that consciousness is identical to a certain kind of information, the realization of which requires physical, not merely functional, integration, and which can be measured mathematically according to the phi metric.