PSYCH 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Construals
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Lecture 5 & 6: conscious awareness and controlled process: two kinds of consciousness, pre-reflective: stream of consciousness (immediate, automatic experience), applies to all animals; driven by automatic construals. You can engage in other activities while engaged in prc. Such as seeing a red square, watching tv, texting while watching tv: reflective. Has the quality of aboutness you think about something; ability to refer to something beyond yourself. You miss out on other automatic stream of consciousness thoughts while engaging in reflective consciousness. Controlled processes are reflective: controlled processes: Interfere with other processes: tend to be linguistic; you can talk about it and describe it, can become automatic with enough practice, ego depletion: can"t do two controlled processes equally as well because they share a common resource. It"s like a muscle that gets fatigued; but using it over and over you can get better at it for the long haul.
