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| A person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Consciousness is a mental process of which you are aware. It is greatly influenced by attention and most often contains content of our everyday environment and current concerns. |
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| the quality of being directed toward an object |
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| resistance to division – one thing at a time in awareness |
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capacity to include some objects but not others. – selecting in what we pay attention to – “select in table conversation, select out background noise” |
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| tendency to change – thinking about different things |
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A low –level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mood inputs sensations and may output behavior. |
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Consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state. |
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| A distinct level of consciousness in which the person’s attention to drawn to the self as an object. |
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Describe the content of the conscious mind. |
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a. Immediate environment
b. Current Concerns
c. Thought Suppression – the conscious avoidance of thought – the more you try NOT to think about something the more you think about it. |
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Compare and contrast Freud’s view of unconsciousness with cognitive current day psychologists view of the unconscious. |
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Modern psychologists share Freud’s interest in the impact of unconscious mental processes on consciousness and on behavior. However, rather than Freud’s vision of the unconscious as a teeming menagerie (a collection of wild or unusual animals)of animal urges and repressed thoughts, the current study of the unconscious mind views it as the factory that build the products of conscious thought and behavior. |
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Describe the studies that indicate that unconsciousness has an influence on our behaviors. |
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