Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Reuptake, Muscle Tone, Narcolepsy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Consciousness our moment to moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Subjective and private reality and experience depend on the individual. Dynamic consciousness experiences are ever-changing and a continuous flow of mental activity. Self-reflective and central to our sense of self mind is aware of its own consciousness. Freud proposed that the mind consists of three levels: Conscious contains thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events that we are aware of. Preconscious outside of current awareness, but can be recalled under certain conditions (eg. reminder is necessary) Unconscious cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circumstances (as it would arouse anxiety, guilt, or other negative emotions) Reject notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed conflicts. View conscious mental life as complementary forms of information processing. Controlled voluntary use of attention and conscious effort (studying, planning, etc. ) Automatic performed with little or no conscious effort (driving, etc. )