Unconscious Flashcards
unconscious was introduced when by who?
18th century by Platner
Plotinus was presumably the first to allude to
the possibility of unconscious psychological processes in writing
Descartes dualism is
he doesn’t believe in unconscious= Cartesian Castorophe
John Norris and Kant
they believed there is so much going on in our brains/capacity of consciousness is small/there must be more than consciousness
Watt in an experiment showed we are only aware of
results of mental processes
Experiment divided into four stages
Third stage searching for an association
was important becuz actual thinking takes place but answered them unconsciously
Kornhuber and Deecke conducted a famous experiment looking at?
The idea that we unconsciously prepare an action before we are conscious of this action.
Libet replicated their experiment adding?
Did he find?
conscious awareness of their decision to act
Unconscious decides to act we become consciously aware of wanting to do the action finally we act
Dijksterhuis and Vanknippenberg demonstarted that priming?
can improve intellectual performance
priming techniques are also applied to
changing peoples behavior
akrasia
lack of control over oneself
Cartesian catastrophe
the idea that mental processes taking place outside conscious awareness are impossible
distractor task
task designed to make a person think about something unrelated to impending decision
eureka experience
when a creative product enters consciousness
mere-exposure effects
result of developing a more positive attitude towards stimulas after repeated instances of mere exposure to it.
unconscious
the part of the mind that affects behavior through it is inaccessible to the conscious mind
