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Consciousness

Explore the various aspects and levels of consciousness, including sensory awareness, direct inner awareness, and the sense of self. Discover how consciousness impacts our thoughts, feelings, and dreams. Learn about altered states of consciousness through sleep, hypnosis, meditation, drugs, and biofeedback.

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Consciousness

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  1. Consciousness Chapter 5 section 1

  2. Consciousness • Awareness of things inside and outside ourselves. • Examples?

  3. Construct • Something that cannot be seen, touched or measured directly. • Intelligence • Dreams • Thoughts • Feelings

  4. Three meanings of consciousness • Sensory Awareness • Direct Inner Awareness • Sense of Self

  5. Sensory Awareness • We use our senses • See, taste, smell, touch, hear • Selective attention • Focusing on a particular stimulus

  6. Direct Inner Awareness • Imagination • You can imagine the smells, feelings, tastes, etc. • You don’t use your senses directly but you are conscious of them • Aware of things inside yourself • (Demonstration p. 105)

  7. Sense of Self • We are aware of ourselves and our existence.

  8. Levels of Consciousness • Pre-Conscious • Unconscious • Non-conscious

  9. Pre-Conscious • Ideas that are not in our awareness right now but we can recall them. • What did you eat for lunch? • What was your last class? • When is your birthday? • What is your phone number?

  10. Unconscious • This information is unavailable to awareness under most circumstances. • Use defense mechanisms to push ideas out of our consciousness. • Protect ourselves from feeling badly.

  11. Non-conscious • Basic biological functions • Pupils dilating • Hair growing • Blood flowing

  12. Altered States of Consciousness • Person’s sense of self or sense of the world changes. • Sleep • Hypnosis • Meditation • Drugs • biofeedback

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