PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hypnosis, Memory Consolidation, Osmosis
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There is also some agreement on what some of the key functions consciousness serves . Perception, memory, thinking, language, and most all other aspects of psychological functioning operate on two levels . The high road conscious, deliberate processing, of which we are aware. The low road - unconscious, automatic processing, of which we are unaware. One of the first psychologists to recognizes this was sigmund freud. Freud argued that much of our behavior is driven by unconscious drives. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects of trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state which in french is called distraction -
