Question

What is the definition for consciousness? What are the two parts of consciousness?

What are two parts of the brain that deal with consciousness? What is stream of consciousness and who coined the phrase?

In what level of consciousnes does controlled processes occur? Define incubation and parallel processing. What is the medical term for sleepwalking and sleeptalking

What is daydreaming, according to the text discussion?

Answer 1

consciousness is the position of being conscious of and sensitive to one's surroundings.

Two parts of Consciousness are Awareness and arousal.

Three large areas of the brain are involved in the phenomenon of consciousness. The first is the reticular formation, Second is the thalamus, And finally, there is the cortex.

A stream of consciousness is a literary style in which a character's feelings, opinions, and responses are represented in a constant flow which is uninterrupted by objective information. it is a narrative style or approach that endeavors to describe the multitudinous views and feelings which pass within the subconscious.

The term stream of consciousness was coined by William James in 1890 in his "The Principles of Psychology."

Controlled processing is deliberately done while we are consciously alert of what we are creating

Incubation is defined as a process of unconscious recombination of views that were stimulated during deliberate work at one point in time, resulting in unique thoughts at some later point in time.

The medical term for sleepwalking and sleep talking is called parasomnia.