Psychology A185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Freudian Slip, Unconscious Mind, Preconscious

• School: Orange Coast College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology A185
• Professor: Norris

Document Summary

State of consciousness: psychologists mean a pattern of subjective experience. Altered state of consciousness: variations from our normal waking state. Mri scans of people induced into unconsciousness measures nodal strength (connectivity). Different areas of the brain have different connectivity in different states of awareness. Consciousness: moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Subjective and private: other people cannot know your reality. Dynamic: we typically experience consciousness as a flowing stream of mental activity. Self-reflective and central to self: you can reflect on the fact that you are the one who is conscious of your own thought. Intimately-connected with process of selective attention: consciousness consists in the selection of some and the suppression of rest by agency of attention. States of consciousness: conscious mind: mental events of which we are currently aware. Control planning: preconscious mind: mental events outside current awareness, but can be recalled conditionally. The information is accessible and can be constructed from memory.