i. For example, knowing when to go to class or work.

b. Consciousness also deals with awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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.

i. Started by French philosopher Rene Descartes stated that mind and body are separate, but interacting.

ii. Dualism says that one thing cannot exist without it's opposite.

1. Light cannot exist without darkness.

2. Good cannot exist without the presence of evil.

3. The body cannot function without the mind, and so forth.

i. Psychologists say that our mental activity is rooted in the brain.

a. Refers to subjective experience and awareness (feelings).

i. Argued that this activity may not always work well, but creates interesting and ingenious thought patterns.

5. Pinker (1997) says that even the best theorists confuse terms when they talk about consciousness.

iii. Access and self-knowledge are cognitive activities that can be analyzed by psychological viewpoints such as fMRI scans and biofeedback.

a. Stated that left-dominated and right-dominated modes of consciousness function in a complimentary and alternating fashion.

4. If you are in a state of consciousness that is different from what you normally are, you are in an altered state of consciousness.

3. Believes that drinking will bring you into a lower level of consciousness.

i. Freud and other cognitive psychologists came up with this theory.

1. Pinker says that this analysis is crucial because it is the only way for scientists to understand the true nature of consciousness.

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