1. Consciousness

2. What is Consciousness? Definition:
Awareness to one’s own mental activity as well as the environment
Meaning Has 3 Applications:
Sensory Awareness
Inner Awareness
Sense of Self

3. Sensory Awareness Explanation:
being aware of all the sensations around you
being aware of things outside your body
Additional Information:
1. Selective Attention focusing on one stimuli when others are going on around you at same time
2. Tend to pay more attention to
- Unusual Stimuli (person cross dressing)
- Intense Stimuli (fireworks going off)
- Sudden Changes(lights turn off in room)

4. Inner Awareness Explanation:
being aware of one’s own thoughts, feelings, and memories without using the senses
being aware of things inside yourself
In Other Words……….
1. You DO NOT see, smell, touch the thoughts, feelings, and memories
2. Examples:
- aware of being happy
- aware of being nervous
- memories of summer vacation
- thoughts of love

5. Sense of Self Explanation:
being aware of one’s identity and self-direction
being aware of ourselves and our own existence as a person in this world
In Other Words……….
1. Understanding one is unique & separate from other people
2. Examples:
- self-concept
- self-expression
- self-esteem
- self-centeredness

6. Levels of Consciousness
Additional levels of consciousness where… …awareness is more limited!
They are:
- Preconscious Level
- Unconscious Level
- Nonconscious Level

7. Levels of Consciousness
Conscious level    information about yourself and your environment of
which you are currently aware Preconscious level    Information about yourself or your environment
that you are not currently thinking about, but you
could be if cued.
Unconscious level    events and feelings that are unacceptable or
inappropriate to our conscious mind and are
repressed into the unconscious mind. 
(Subconscious level   Information that we are
not consciously aware of but we know must exist
due to behavior)
Nonconscious level    Body processes controlled by your mind that we
are not usually aware of

8. Continuum of Consciousness
Controlled Processes
Require full awareness
Alertness & concentration interferes
w/ execution of other activities
Driving a Car for the first time
Automatic Processes
Requires little awareness,
take minimal attention,
and do NOT interfere w/ other activities
Eating while reading or watching television
Driving along familiar route
Daydreaming
Low level of awareness required
Often occurs during automatic processes
Involves fantasizing or dreaming while awake
Usually happens at time where little attention is required, repetitive or boring activities
Altered States
Result from: medication, hypnosis, psychoactive drugs, or sleep deprivation to produce an awareness different than normal consciousness
LSD
Sleep
5 different stages
Dreaming--a unique state conscious
As we sleep, we experience astonishing images (visual, tactile, auditory)