PSYC 499 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anandamide, Unconscious Mind, Inverted Spectrum
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Awareness is personalized cannot be seen through someone"s lenses. Contents found through introspection used to find contents (process of looking within to observe one"s thoughts, beliefs, feelings) Allows one to see the broader fabric of one"s mental lives. Inverted spectrum (when one"s vision is reversed from the majority) Use of words different understandings of how a word is used. Unconscious awareness of stuff going on in our minds. Consciousness = critical awareness of one"s own situation and identity. Cognitive unconscious = the mental support process outside of our perception, memory, and thinking possible. Derived from freud"s idea that the unconscious mind and conscious mind are adversaries. Processes of perception and memory retrieval occur outside our awareness. Retrograde amnesia (profound disruption of memories) test results for implicit memory (memory separate from conscious awareness) = normal. Blindsight = ability of person with lesions to reach toward objects.
