CONSCIOUS AWARENESS AND UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING: ch 5

consciousness

awareness of yourself, your thoughts and your surroundings

inverted spectrum problem

asks whether two people could use the same color words while having different subjective color experiences

arousal versus awareness

arousal concerns physiological activation or wakefulness; awareness concerns conscious experience. they can vary independently

mind wandering

attention shifts away from an immediate task; it can sometimes support creative connections and future planning

modern unconscious processing

many automatic processes operate outside awareness while influencing conscious thought and behavior

global workspace hypothesis

conscious access depends on information becoming broadly aviilable across interacting brain systems; disrupted coordination may accompany loss of awareness

conscious

focus of current awareness

preconscious

consciously accessible thoughts, feelings and memories

dynamic unconscious

inaccessible memories, instincts, and desires

how can a person preform activity with limited awareness

through automatic processing, muscle memory, and selective/focused attention

why brain activity alone does not guaruntee conscious experience

brain activity alone doesn’t guarantee awareness because brain processing occurs outside of awareness