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Consciousness |
Your awareness of mental activities and processes going on in your mind at any given moment, as well as your awareness of objects and events in the external world |
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Consciousness is (4 things) |
Personal, selective, continuous and changing
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Psychological construct |
A hypothetical concept that is created to explain phenomena that are believed to exist or occur but cannot be observed or measured |
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The two states of consciousness |
Normal waking consciousness and altered states of consciousness |
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Normal waking consciousness |
The state of when we are awake and aware thoughts, memories, feelings and sensations. |
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Altered states of consciousness |
Characterised by a distinctly different level of mental awareness to normal waking consciousness, in that major changes occur in the qualities or characteristics of an individual’s thoughts, feelings or perceptions. |
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Characteristics of NWC |
Awareness Attention (selective and divided) Controlled and Automatic Processes Content Limitations |
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Awareness |
There are varying levels or 'degrees' of awareness within normal waking consciousness. |
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Controlled Processes |
Information processing requiring conscious, alert awareness and mental effort in which the individual actively focuses their attention on achieving a particular goal. |
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Automatic Processes |
Requires little conscious awareness and mental effort, minimal attention and do not interfere with the performance of some activities. Less conscious effort than controlled processes. |
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Attention |
Focusing on specific stimuli and ignoring others |
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Selective Attention |
Refers to the fact that at any given moment the focus of our awareness is on only a limited range of all that we are capable of experiencing. |
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Divided Attention |
Refers to the ability to distribute one’s attention and undertake two or more activities simultaneously. |
