PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Waking Hours, Waking Life, Cognitive Psychology

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Consciousness- awareness of various cognitive processes, such as sleeping, dreaming, concentrating and making decisions. Waking consciousness- all thoughts, feelings and perceptions that occur when we are awake and reasonably alert. Altered states of consciousness- mental state that differs noticeably from normal waking consciousness. Explaining waking consciousness: first, consciousness was psychology"s primary concern, fell out of favor in early 20th century. Focus on directly observable, measurable behavior: change in 1960"s- alternative states of consciousness, rise in cognitive psychology, advances in neuroscience, dissatisfaction with behaviorism. Consciousness and nonconsciousness: common view unconscious mental activity. Consciousness is only a small peak emerging from a mass of: freud- sexual and aggressive instincts that remain largely hidden, nonconscious, cognitive psychologists processing- sense of self. See consciousness as first-person element of information: together, different brain centers provide the self with an overall orientation, when something new, unusual or unexpected occurs, one or more of brain division enters consciousness.

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