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Consciousness Flashcards

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How would you define consciousness?

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Awareness of ourselves and our environment. This is valid for both humans and some animals

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What is monitoring?

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Focusing on one specific aspect to prevent information overload (eg. scanning crowd)

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What is unconscious controlling?

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Handling something without consciousness (eg driving home)

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What is the dual process?

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Keeping up an automatic, unconscious process, and a controlled, conscious process at the same time

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