Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oxygen Therapy, Depressant, Hypnosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

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Every state is part of a personal consciousness a. b. Within each personal consciousness states are always changing a. b. Each personal consciousness is sensibly continuous a. b. Even when there is a time gap a consciousness after it feels as if it belonged together with the consciousness before it, as another part of the same self. The changes from one moment to another in the quality of consciousness are never kept abrupt. Consciousness is interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others, and welcomes or rejects - chooses from among them a. b. Deliberate will of choosing amongst stimuli and ignoring others so our experience is determined by our habits of attention. Id - instinctual sexual and aggressive drives (unconscious) Ego - mediating between id and superego (conscious & preconscious) Sense of immortality & awareness of all life. *currently few individuals reach this level even as adults.