PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pocket Computer, Waking Life, Hypnosis
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Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Stream of consciousness: william james (late 1800s, consciousness moves, lows, changes like a stream. Levels of consciousness: controlled processes: require alert awareness, atenion, and interfere with ongoing acivity. Performed serially (one process at a ime: automaic processes: occur with litle awareness, require minimal atenion, and do not interfere much with other aciviies. Performed in parallel (more than one process can be performed at a ime) Some controlled processes can become automaic with pracice. Smart phone (or pager or pocket computer: sounded randomly through the day and person answers: No link found between frequent daydreaming and poor mental health. Can help relax, endure frustraion, alleviate boredom. Can rehearse possible approaches to problems: fantasy-prone personality: someone who imagines and recalls experiences with lifelike vividness and spends considerable ime fantasizing. About 4% if populaion (less than 10%)
