PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -During an altered state of consciousness, your ability to pay attention to certain tasks can be increased or decreased compared to normal waking consciousness. In normal waking consciousness you can usually prevent yourself from focusing your attention on issues, thoughts or events that are unpleasant.

Detailed explanation-2: -all of them at the same time: (1) sensory perception; (2) mental imagery; (3) inner speech; (4) conceptual thought; (5) remembering; (6) emotional feeling (7) volition; and (8) self-awareness. At the end of the chapter I will consider the question of conscious unity-how all of these characteristics seem to go together.

Detailed explanation-3: -The normal state of consciousness comprises either the state of wakefulness, awareness, or alertness in which most human beings function while not asleep or one of the recognized stages of normal sleep from which the person can be readily awakened.

Detailed explanation-4: -Modifying Freud’s distinctions, Giddens differentiates between the unconscious, practical consciousness, and discursive consciousness. The unconscious is separated from the other two by mechanisms of repression.

Detailed explanation-5: -UNITARY CONSCIOUSNESS An altered state of consciousness is a change in one’s normal mental state as a result of trauma or accident or induced through meditation, drugs, some foods, etc. [1] The person is not unconscious.