PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychologists use the term “consciousness” to designate our personal awareness of feelings, sensations, and thoughts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Consciousness is an awareness of our surroundings and thoughts, including aspects of being awake and aware. It is our awareness of various mental processes or cognitive processes that operate in our daily lives such as making decisions, daydreaming, reflecting, sleeping, dreaming and concentrating.

Detailed explanation-3: -Consciousness can be defined as the awareness of our own thoughts, feelings and perceptions (internal events) and our surroundings (external stimuli) at any given moment. It creates our reality (what we believe to be real and happening at this moment) and is central to our sense of self.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.