PSYC 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Preconscious, Solitary Confinement, Suggestibility
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1. includes thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and other mental processes at any given time: not a unique mental process many processes, consciously recall a childhood memory, but it"s more than just memory, perception, or emotion, selective attention focuses conscious awareness on some things, and excludes others, ex: zoning out while driving, level of consciousness, levels of consciousness: i. Buy coke! : vs. subliminal messages, may affect behavior, but without conscious awareness, again, zoning out while driving different tasks are occurring at different levels of consciousness, state of consciousness, states of consciousness: i. Variations in quality/pattern/nature of mental activity available to awareness: differences in perceptions, emotions, memory, sense of time, ii. iii. self control, suggestibility ex: normal, waking consciousness, perceive time/places/events as real, meaningful, familiar vs. altered states of consciousness, fatigue, delirium, hypnosis, drugs, dreaming, also long distance running, sex, listening to music, even sensory overload, monotony, fever, dehydration, solitary confinement, sensory deprivation iv.
