PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Cosmic Consciousness, Psychology, Unconsciousness
Document Summary
Thoughts, perception, mental events in our awareness. Outside of current awareness but easily recalled. Automating processing: routine actions of well-learned tasts. Divided attention: ability to perform more than 1 activity at the same time. Modern psychodynamic views emphasize emotional and motivational processes also operate unconsciously to influence behavior. Self report: most common measure where people describe their experiences. Physiological measure: relation between bodily state and mental process. Ego mediating between the id and superego. Stages of evolution: simple consciousness, awareness of one"s environment, shared w/ lower animals. **few days after birth*: self consciousness, awareness of oneself as separate and unique, unique to humans. **by the age of 3-4: cosmic consciousness. Sense of immortality (something that is beyond humans that survives)and awareness of all life. **currently few individuals reach this level even as adults. Views conscious and unconscious as complimentary forms of information processing. Physiological measures: establish correspondence between bodily states and mental processes.
