AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Consciousness is your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. Essentially, your consciousness is your awareness of yourself and the world around you. This awareness is subjective and unique to you.

Detailed explanation-2: -Psychological constructs are used to understand or explain things that we believe exist but cannot see, touch, or measure in any way. Consciousness is a psychological construct because it is believed to exist, but we are unable to physically measure it, so descriptions are ‘constructed’ to explain it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first is functional awareness and response. The second meaning is subjective experience, and is only available from the inside. The third meaning is explicit self-conscious awareness, and is only present in human persons.

Detailed explanation-4: -On Aristotle’s view, the awareness that we have of our own mental states is an intrinsic and essential feature of those states; and yet it is to be explicated in terms of intentionality. It therefore remains equally congenial to a naturalistic approach to the mind, an approach I would argue he himself favours.