PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ernest Hilgard, Frontal Lobe, Implicit Stereotype
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Consciousness: consciousness, our awareness of ourselves and our environments, human consciousness seems to be a product of. Our associational capacity to connect things. Our attentional capacity to focus on things. Our capacity for meaning & symbolism the ability to treat yourself as an object in the world: freud"s consciousness, says we can"t understand consciousness, without understanding unconsciousness. There are things that drive us, that we are not aware of. Most of what we express and drive our conscious mind, is driven by our unconscious: id, ego. Controls our wishes & desires, they get submerged into the unconscious, narcissistic wishes. Helps deal with reality by mediating between the demands of the id and the superego. The ego also prevents us from acting on every urge we have (produced by the id) and being so morally driven that we can"t function properly: super ego. Then they told them to sit in a room for 15 minutes with their thoughts.
