PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hypnotic Susceptibility, Franz Mesmer, Inattentional Blindness
7 Jun 2018
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
• Consciousness
o Awareness of self and environment
o Involves 2 Processes
▪ Maintaining self and environment
▪ Controlling behavior
• Starting and stopping behavior
o History:
▪ William James first to discuss it psychologically
• Defines psychology as a study of states of consciousness
▪ Freud first to define different states of consciousness
o Freud’s “tates of osiousess
▪ Conscious → current awareness
• Information readily available
▪ Preconscious → available awareness
• Information easy to access
▪ Unconscious → hidden awareness
• Information buried deep
o Cognitive Unconscious
▪ Some things happen outside of awareness
▪ Not necessarily motivated to keep them outside of awareness
• Attention
o Selection of some objects or thoughts in environment over others
o What determines what is selected, and what we pay attention to?
o Although attention can be divided
▪ You can do more than 1 thing at a time
o Intense tasks make you ignore other things
▪ Inattentional blindness
• Fail to notice when things in environmental change
• Fail to notice when choices are switched
• Altering Consciousness
o Many things can alter consciousness
▪ Hypnosis
▪ Drugs
• Hypnosis
o Bega i ’s with Fraz Meser
▪ Used agets or stiks to eserize people
▪ Used this trancelike state to help patients with physical/psych problems
o Usually people fixate on an object; slowly relax (fixation → muscle fatigue)
o Today in science: an extreme relaxed state in which subject has heightened
suggestibility
o Helps for memories; unconsciousness; etc.
o Lots of studies: what’s true, what’s th?
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