PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sleepwalking, Parasomnia, Sensory Deprivation
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What is consciousness: the state of being awake and alert patients in a coma are not conscious. In a more general sense, being awake of something so one could be conscious of the threat of global warming or conscious of food in front of you. In a more specific sense, the state of being aware of oneself, or at least one own thoughts to be self conscious of self-aware: when used as an adjective conscious thoughts or processes are typical linked to goals. 3: when used as an adjective conscious thoughts or processes are typical linked to goals and the notion of behavioural control and the notion of behavioural control. Unity- consciousness is very hard to divide conscious of one thing at a time. Selectivity- only certain aspects of stimuli are brought into consciousness. Transience difficult to keep consciousness from moving conscious drifting (hard to keep only one thought in the mind)
