Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Unconscious Mind, Preconscious, Diazepam
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The cognitive viewpoint: cognitive psychologists reject notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed conflicts. Instead, they view conscious and unconscious mental life as complementary forms of information processing. Divided attention: automatic processing facilitates divided attention ability to perform more than one activity at the same time. It becomes more difficult when tasks require similar mental resources (shadowing experiments) The emotional unconscious (psychodynamic incorporates cognitive views: unconscious processes can have an emotional and motivational flavour, ex. Those who are shown subliminally negative nouns (like cancer) tend to be in a worse mood than those who are shown subliminally positive nouns (like friends) Info can be processed and influence behaviour outside of conscious awareness. Consciousness and the modular mind: neuroscientists believe that there is no single place in the brain responsible for consciousness. Instead, the mind is viewed as a collection of separate but interacting information- processing modules that perform tasks related to sensation, perception, memory, movement, etc.