PSYC 2000 Chapter : 4.1 Consciousness
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Waking consciousness- awake state; thoughts feelings, sensations are clear and organized and they feel alert. Altered states of consciousness occurs when there is a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity. Thoughts may be fuzzy and disorganized and you may feel less alert, or thoughts may take bizarre turns, as they do in dreams (ex. Some states occur spontaneously: daydreaming, drowsiness, dreaming. Some states are physiologically induced: hallucinations, orgasm, food or oxygen starvation. Some states are psychologically induces: sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation. Dual processing: consciousness is only the tip of the information-processing iceberg, the unconscious mind processes information simultaneously on multiple tracks, while the conscious mind processes information sequentially. Can you selectively attend to one thing?s. Our conscious awareness processes only a small part of all that we experience. We intuitively make use of the info we are not consciously aware of.
