PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hemispatial Neglect, Unconscious Mind, Clinical Psychology
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Just because there are things we are not aware of, it doesn"t mean these things cannot effect our behavior: clinical psychology (freud)-freud argued that certain parts of our personality more conscious and others are subconscious. Psychological illness has to do with unresolved conflicts in our unconscious mind. Freud was an influence for bringing this unconscious to our awareness. We"re aware of less than we think we are : there is far more out in the world than we can possibly process. Our perception of the world seems more coherent than it actually is. Grand illusion of perception- it looks like we take in more information and our clearly of more things in the environment than we actually are. We think we are processing people than we actually are: attention is a limited mechanism that limits how much information we can take in. There is far more in the world than we can process.
