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Consciousness
Term | Definition |
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Consciousness | awareness of one's self and one's environment |
Controlled Processing | we are aware of what we are doing |
Automatic Processing | performing tasks mechanically |
Sensory Awareness | aware of sensations and stimuli around you (more consciousness of some things than others) |
Direct Inner Awareness | Thoughts, images, emotions, and memories/things inside yourself. |
Sense of Self | Aware of ourselves and our existence |
Preconscious | Information that is not conscious, but it's retrievable into conscious awareness. |
Unconscious | Freud: Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we are unaware but which influences our behavior. |
Nonconscious | Bodily processes of which we are not aware. |