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Psych Vocab 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| consciousness | awareness of oneself and one's environment |
| selective attention | the focusing of attention on a particular stimulus |
| preconscious | descriptive of information that is not conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness |
| unconscious | according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we are unaware but which influence our behavior |
| nonconscious | descriptive of bodily processes, such as the growing of hair, of which we are not aware |
| altered state of consciousness | a type of consciousness other than normal waking consciousness |