PSYA01H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 - Consciousness
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Consciousness: links between attention and awareness, notion of self-awareness, consciousness as control (hypnotism), altered states of consciousness. Consciousness and the ability to communicate: the ability to communicate with ourselves symbolically gives rise to consciousness (confirmed by experiment by cheesman and. Merikle in 1986 by words and colours) every accomplishment requires 2 general capacities: 1) be able to translate private events 2) words or other symbols must have effect on person"s listening (like subvocal articulation) . Consciousness and the control or behaviour: in the past, psychologists found problems with using consciousness to explain behaviour as it was pointless to observes something (behaviour) with something not visible (consciousness) Vs. pepsi these conditions have the potential to tell us about these influences especially when contrasted with non-oppositional versions of the same thing) Humans tend to choose specific stimuli to process deeply while the rest feel as if they are not being processed at.