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Consciousness as
awareness
1.sensory awareness of the environment
2.consciousness is selective attention
(focusing ones consciousness on a
particular stimulus)
--makes our senses more keener
--advertisement (what captured your
attention)
3. Direct inner awareness-knowledge of
ones thoughts, feelings, and emotions
Preconscious
Preconscious - descriptive of material that is
not awareness but can be brought into
awareness by focusing ones attention
Examples
Growing of hair
Carrying oxygen in the blood
Drugs-altering substance
Depressant retards CNS
Stimulant stimulate CNS
Hallucinogen- peyote cactus/
mushroom
(THC) / LSD
Hallucination
Narcotics- relieve pain --- opiates
Substance abuse- persistent use of a
substance even though it is causing or
compounding problems in meeting the
demands of life