PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Reuptake, Nucleus Accumbens, Disinhibition
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Conscious the awareness of internal and external stimuli. Consciousness is continuously changing => william james describe this continuous flow as the stream of consciousness. Almost every human behaviours comes from a mixture of conscious and unconscious processing. Mind wandering refers to people"s experience of task-unrelated thoughts, thoughts that are not related to what they are intentionally trying to do at a given moment. Mind wandering is associated with less need of awareness of external information, and may be connected to creativity in some contexts. Controlled process judgement, or thoughts that we exert some control over, that we intend to occur. Automatic processing its effects happen without our intentional control or effort. Dijksterhuis suggests that if people are distracted or diverted from conscious deliberation, some decisions may actually be enhanced. Conscious thought is thought with attention; unconscious thought is thought without attention.
