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CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF What Is Consciousness? What Is Consciousness? Consciousness is our awareness of external stimuli (suc ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF What Is Consciousness? 162 163 A normal state of consciousness occurs when neurons fire at fairly hig ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Attention Attention Attention is the process of concentrating or focusing on specific information. Th ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Attention 164 165 Types of attention There are various types of attention, and the sort of attention ...

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166 167 How to Focus Your Attention Focusing your attention requires your brain to process specific information. Learning how to ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Free Will and the Unconscious Free Will and the Unconscious Many activities in everyday life—from our ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Free Will and the Unconscious 168 169 Levels of consciousness In the early 20th century, neurologist ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Altered States Altered States An altered state of consciousness is any condition that differs signifi ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Altered States 170 171 Altered states in the brain Altered states can lead to a range of experiences, ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Sleep and Dreams A not-so-silent night There are four distinct stages of sleep, and we pass through e ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Sleep and Dreams 172 173 Cleaning the brainDuring the day, our brain activity produces by-products th ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF Time Packets of time One cycle of a brain clock equals one “packet” of time, which we register as a s ...

Factors affecting time perception As adults, we are more conscious of time, as we have responsibilities and schedules. These rou ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF What Is Personality? What Is Personality? Our personality makes us who we are. It is a set of behavio ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF What Is Personality? 176 177 Assessing personality The most common personality assessment, the Big Fi ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF The Self The Self The self is an accumulation of concepts of who we are, who we were, and who we want ...

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF The Self 178 179 The actual and ideal self There can sometimes be a difference between who we believe ...

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