PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Night Terror, Unconsciousness, Thalamus
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Chapter 6: define different level of conscious awareness and describe key brain structures and functions associated with those levels. Attention is one key aspect of conscious awareness. Other cognitive abilities include monitoring, memory, and planning. Most biological investigator believe that consciousness results from a combination of brain activities in several brain regions. Inattentional blindness failure to notice things around us to which we are not paying attention: blindsight being unware of what has reached our attention. Implicit memory memory we do not consciously reflect on but still influences our behavior. Explicit memory involves pieces of knowledge we are aware of. Preconsciousness is a level of awareness where information is readily available to consciousness if needed. Unconsciousness is a state when information is not readily available to conscious awareness. Automatic behaviors remembering what you do daily (like brushing teeth) Freud viewed human unconscious as an important storehouse for knowledge and experience, which is not directly accessible to conscious awareness, still influences.
