PS260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Visual Cortex, Qualia, Metamemory
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Consciousness is a state of awareness of sensations or ideas such that you can reflect on those sensations and ideas, know what it feels like to experience these sensations and ideas. Cognitive unconscious: mental activity that you"re not aware of but that makes possible you ordinary interactions with the world. It is important to distinguish the products created within your mind (beliefs you have formed, conclusions you have reached) from the processes that led to these products. We quibble about whether a particular mental step counts as a product or a process. You are unaware of your mental processes and aware of your mental products. Unconscious reasoning can be dangerous as it misleads witnesses by some after-the-fact reconstruction. Nisbett and schachter (1966) electric shocks and placebo study. (they ended up misreading their own internal state they didn"t even mention the pill as being one of the factors of handling so much shock. )
