Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: The Conscious Mind, Sigmund Freud, Subliminal Stimuli

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

Document Summary

The cognitive viewpoint: cognitive psychologists reject the notion of an unconscious mind driven by instinctive urges and repressed conflicts, cognitive psychologists view conscious and unconscious mental life as complementary forms of information processing. Divided attention: divided attention: the ability to perform more than one activity at the same time = Multi tasking : without the capacity to divide attention, every task we take part in would require our full attention, negative consequence: degrades academic performance and distracting in certain situations. The emotional unconscious: emotional and motivational processes can also operate unconsciously and influence behaviour, the results of numerous experiments have strengthened the view that unconscious processes can have an emotional and motivational flavour ex. Being in a good mood or bad moor for unknown reasons, perhaps it is because you were influenced by events in your environment of which you were not consciously aware of.