Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CONSCIOUSNESS
- REFERS TO the awareness of an individuals own
exsistense and mental activities (inc. thoughts,
sensations and feelings) and of objects and
events in the external world.
- hypothetical & cannot be measured directly
- - continuous & changing (never stops,
contents blend in to one another) -
subjective and personal (our
perceptions of internal thoughts and
incorporates our external
enviro) -selective (choose to focus on
some things)
- NWC
- we are aware of the variety of sensory
inputs from the outside world & internal
thoughts etc.
- when awake
- LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- state of focused attention
- ordinary waking state
- day dreaming
- meditative
- hypnotic
- sleep
- aneathetised
- unconscious (coma)
- DIFFERENCES/EFFECTS
- AWARENESS
- aware of internal
thoughts/processes &
external stimuli
- NWC
- clear - individual can
process sensory
output to form an
awareness or interna
state and external
stimuli
- aware of thoughts - clear &
meaningful, structured
capable of analytical thinking
- activly stores and retrieves info
- aware, normal range
of appropriate emotion
- average sense of time
- less aware of
sensations and/or
external stimuli
- ASC
- perceptual
distortions may
occur, senses,
feelings & emotions
can be stronger and
more vivid. PAIN
- loose touch with reality,
information processing is
distorted. illogical, non sequential
and unable problem solving
- continuity distrupted,
gaps info hasnt been
processed due to
cognitive disruptions
- heightened or lowered.
emotionless, unpredictable
- may over or under
estimate / no sense
(sleep) distorted
- PERCEPTIONS
- COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS
- MEMORY
- EMOTIONS
- TIME
- ATTENTION
- enables us to focus on and be aware of
some stimuli and ignore others
- selective attention- focusing
on certain stimuli to the
exclusion of other stimuli
- divided attention:
simultaneously focusing on
and/or shifting attention between
two sets of stimuli
- ASC
- A state that is distinctly different in
experience from NWC.
- PROCESSES
- the higher the level of awareness, the
more likely an activity will require or
involve a controlled process; the lower
the level of awareness, the more likely
an activity will require or involve an
automatic process
- CONTROLLED
- use of a high level of
conscious awreness and
mental effort in an activity
- requires selective "focused" attention
- can interfere with
performance of other
ongoing activities
- can become automatic with practise
- AUTOMATIC
- Use of low level of conscious
awareness and mental effort
- divided attention is possible
- minimally
interferes with
performance of
other ongoing
activities