PSY 226 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Anti-Social Behaviour, Suggestibility, Highway
16 Dec 2022
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Nonconscious: another term for the unconscious, the part of the mind about which we. When psychologists speak of consciousness, they are often referring to awareness, or what one knows about his or her experience and how reality is constructed. Many theorists hold that there are two systems controlling behavior - a conscious, relatively voluntary or controlled system and a relatively more automatic system that usually functions outside of awareness. Control theories provide models that view behavior as a function of both conscious, or controlled, and relatively nonconscious or automatic processes. These theories view the human being as a cybernetic system - a system in which feedback from the environment is being continually monitored and then used to correct the behavior of the system. An example of the idea that consciousness is primarily utilized to alter automatic processes when necessary is provided by langer"s work on mindlessness.
