BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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It was only studied by Sigmund Freud
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It has been discredited in favor of studying behaviors
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It has been discredited in light of research showing the significant role of the unconscious
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It is an important way of studying our two-track minds
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Focus has shifted away from other areas to only studying the way that sleep affects our consciousness
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Detailed explanation-1: -You can define consciousness in psychology simply as awareness, but that doesn’t give a complete picture. It’s awareness of your internal processes like thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving. It knows who you are and what you possess. Consciousness can mean the awareness of memories.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following is true about the study of consciousness in psychology? Focus has shifted away from other areas to only studying the way that sleep affects our consciousness.
Detailed explanation-3: -Describe the place of consciousness in psychology’s history. Psychology began as the study of consciousness, our awareness of ourselves and our environment. But the difficulty of scientifically studying consciousness led many psychologists to turn to direct observations of behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wilhelm Wundt’s investigations of consciousness, begun in 1879, were central to the development of psychology as a field of study.