levels of consciousness

concious

state of active awareness

ex: reading a book

nonconscious

automatic body processes controlled by mind we’re not usually aware of

ex: heartbeat, breathing

preconsciousness

stores info not being currently used, but can be recalled easily 

ex: song lyrics, address

subconscious

info you’re not consciously aware of but we know must exist due to behavior

ex: implicit bias, subliminal messages, priming, mere exposure effect 

unconscious

psychoanalytic belief certain events & feelings (especially unacceptable traumatic ones) are repressed into unconscious mind

ex: difficult to retrieve this information; pioneered by Sigmund Freud