PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Unconscious Mind, Preconscious, Pineal Gland
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State of consciousness: a pattern of subjective experience, a way of experiencing internal and external events. Altered state of consciousness: variations from our normal waking state. Consciousness: moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Self-reflective and central to our sense of self. Intimately connected with the process of selective attention. Correspondence between bodily states and mental processes; objective, can"t tell subjective experience (eeg recordings to identify different stages of sleep) Freud: human mind consists of three levels of awareness: Conscious mind: thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we"re currently aware. Preconscious: mental events that are outside current awareness but can easily be recalled under certain conditions. Unconscious events: cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circumstances. Reject the notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed conflicts. Controlled processing: the voluntary use of attention and conscious effort.
