PSY 1101 Midterm: Psy 1101 Midterm 2 Notes
23 Nov 2017
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The immediate awareness of internal and external stimuli. A person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. William james said consciousness is an ongoing stream of mental activity. Psychologically induced : occur , are , are . Minimal consciousness: low-level sensory awareness, the mind inputs sensations and. Full consciousness: you know and are able to report your own mental state. Self-consciousness: attention is drawn to the self as an object, almost completely; person is flooded entirely with thoughts of the self. 1: unity : consciousness resists being divided, selectivity : capacity of consciousness to include some things, but not others, transience : consciousness has a tendency to change its focus (can change its. We make things conscious by paying attention to a few things in a teeming (full) world. There are many stimuli, but we have limited capacity. Dual processing and the two-track mind (how we do/don"t pay attention) unconscious levels.
