PSYCH 9A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Arousal, Sleep Paralysis, Occipital Lobe
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Consciousness: moment-by-moment awareness of ourselves, our thoughts, and environment - personalized. Introspection is a powerful research tool, but it"s limited: Introspect - the process of looking within to observe one"s own thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. Introspectors may choose not to reveal what they"re really thinking. Introspectors may lack words or other ways to convey their experiences. We can"t rely on someone"s biology or behavior to tell if they have an. => words themselves will forever be inadequate as a way of describing consciousness. * conscious experience are ineffable - utterly indescribable => words have different meanings to different people. Introspection is limited for another reason: there are many things going on in our minds that we"re unconscious of, and therefore can"t be revealed via self-report - unconscious inference. Cognitive unconscious - much of what goes on in our mind happens outside awareness; we can be aware of the results of such processes but not the process themselves.
