Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Spasm, Reuptake, Thalamus

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

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What is consciousness: awareness of internal and external stimuli (ex. Could be heartbeat or hunger, external could be feeling the seat underneath you: moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment, broader than attention, levels of awareness: James stream of consciousness (like a river) ever changing and moving: freud unconscious not an all or none phenomenon, sleep/dreaming, emotional unconscious (subliminal stimuli and emotional priming effect on. Conscious mind thoughts, perceptions and other mental events in our (current) awareness. Preconscious mind outside of current awareness, but easily recalled (ex. Unconscious mind (cid:374)or(cid:373)all(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e (cid:271)rought i(cid:374)to a(cid:449)are(cid:374)ess (impulses (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t usuall(cid:455) (cid:271)e (cid:271)rought i(cid:374)to awareness except maybe in dreams and hypnosis) Id (brain stem and limbic system) instinctual sexual and aggressive drives conscious (and preconscious) unconscious. Ego(posterior cortex) mediating between id and superego conscious (and preconscious) Carl jung: (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause his ideas (cid:449)ere so si(cid:373)ilar to freud(cid:859)s the(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)luded that the(cid:455) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e fro(cid:373) the collective conscious.