PSYCO104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unconscious Mind, Subliminal Stimuli, Time Perception

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Karsten Loepelmann

Document Summary

States of consciousness are a pattern of subjective experience, a way of experiencing internal and external events. Our moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Subjective and private: other people cannot know what reality is for you. Dynamic: we drift in and out of various states throughout the day. Self-reflective and central to our sense of self: the mind is aware of its own consciousness intimately connected with the process of selective attention: selective attention focuses conscious awareness. Measurement: self report, physiological measures (establish correspondence between bodily states and mental processes, behavioural measures (objective, but the state of mind must be inferred). View conscious and unconscious mental life and complementary forms of information reject the notion of an unconscious mind driven by urges and repressed conflict processing. Controlled processing is the voluntary use of attention and conscious effort. Automatic processing is when there is no conscious effort required.