Section 4: Consciousness
Pages 114-117

I. Defining Consciousness
a. Consciousness is commonly defined as being aware of the immediate environment.
i. For example, knowing when to go to class or work.
b. Consciousness also deals with awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and memories.
i. Examples
1. Making plans for dates.
2. Getting annoyed at your performance in school.
3. Thinking back about good times with your friends.
c. Early psychologists and their studies
i. When early psychologists studied the mind, they studied consciousness.
1. William Wundt (late 1880's) had subjects report contents of consciousness while working, falling asleep, and sitting still.
2. Sigmund Freud (1900's) wrote that needs, desires, and influences are part of the conscious and people have different levels of consciousness.
d. Dualism
i. Started by French philosopher Rene Descartes stated that mind and body are separate, but interacting.
ii. Dualism says that one thing cannot exist......

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