Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ernest Hilgard, Vaginal Lubrication, Hallucinogen

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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State of consciousness a pattern of subjective experience, a way of experiencing internal and external events. Altered state of consciousness variations from our normal working state (dreams) Consciousness our moment-to-moment awareness of our environment and ourselves. Physiological measures establish the correspondence between bodily states and mental processes. Some unconscious content is kept out of conscious awareness because it would arouse anxiety, guilt, or negative emotions. Cognitive psychologists reject the notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed conflicts. They view conscious and unconscious mental life as complementary forms of information processing. Controlled (effortful) processing the voluntary use of attention and conscious effort more flexible and open to change. Automatic processing activities can be performed with little or no conscious effort offers speed and economy of effort. Divided attention the ability to perform more than one activity at the same time. Many theorists propose that the mind consists of separate but interacting info processing modules.