PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Unconscious Mind, Implicit Memory, Sentience
11 Apr 2013
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Activity of which we are completely unaware, but that makes out ordinary interactions with the world possible. Combat anxiety by pushing anxious thoughts out of consciousness (into unconscious mind) Unconscious mind has own set of logic and goals. Support that the cognitive unconscious supports conscious mind and thus does not have own logic and goals. Thus can report our beliefs, conclusions we have made, what we are perceiving at any given moment. Thus, do not know steps that allowed us to form our beliefs, perceptions and conclusions. Unaware of process: activation that spread to node for mother"s name. As dicussed in ch3 both groups likely to perceive corn. Both groups ended with same product, but individuals within group likely do not know which group they were put in (presented with. When one commits a memory error, they are unaware of process because don"t know if they are genuinely remembering something or making an inference.
