Psychology 1000 Lecture 8: 6. Variations in Consciousness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

Document Summary

Awareness of internal (aware you"re hungry) & external stimuli (hearing your prof"s voice) If you can elicit a certain emotion, event unconsciously, it"ll influence our attitude & behaviour. Focus on some stimuli at the cost of others. Chooses from among them: attention is selective, deliberate will of choosing amongst stimuli & ignoring others so our experience is determined by our habits of attention". Neural mapping of freud"s model of the mind. Thoughts, perception of mental events in our awareness. Outside of current awareness, but easily recalled. Ego: mediating between id & superego (conscious & preconscious) *human consciousness is evolving: simple consciousness, awareness of one"s environment, shared with lower animals. *few days after birth: self-consciousness, awareness of one"s self as separate & unique, unique to humans. *by age 3-4: cosmic consciousness, sense of immorality & awareness of all life, *currently few individuals reach this level even as adults. View conscious & unconscious as complimentary forms of info processing.