PSYC 100 Lecture 6: PSYC 100 Lecture 6
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Still not a generally agreed upon definition of consciousness. General state of being aware and responsive to stimuli and. It involves many mental processes rather than a unique. Only been seriously studied the past 30 years due to behaviourism being dominant from 1920"s to 1960"s events in external and internal world process itself. Stream of consciousness: continuous flow of awareness that. What you are consciousness aware of from moment to shifts from event to event moment, not fixated over time. Conscious level: at ant moment, the mental events you are. Non-conscious level: mental events totally removed from aware of exist at this level conscious awareness: e. g. brain"s control of heart. Cognitive unconscious: events that are not conscious but can become conscious or influence conscious experience. Preconscious: outside of awareness but can easily be brought to awareness: e. g. you can think of what you had for diner last night, but before asked, you were not thinking about it.
