SMART PSYCH STUDENTS! PLEASE HELP!

[The Usual Student]

Can an automatic process be completed well with NO conscious awareness? Hence it would be performed outside of our consciousness.
Also, to be conscious of something, do you NEED to spend attention on it? If not how does the Cocktail Party phenomonom work?
Also, oxoford states that Heightened awareness is an ASC, but Grivas disagrees.

[scarletmoon]

ask your psych teacher

[The Usual Student]

ask your psych teacher

I can't really since she never replies her emails and I have SAC soon....

[Emie]

An automatic process will always require some level of consciousness. You can never experience a state of "no" conscious awareness unless you are in a coma.

To be conscious of something, you don't necessarily have to provide alert attention on it, however you must process it to some extent. This is evident in the cocktail party phenomenon, you process the information but you may not be specifically attending to it.

Heightened awareness may be a characteristic of an ASC (e.g. Drug induced state) but this is not necessarily the case.

Hope that helps!

[The Usual Student]

An automatic process will always require some level of consciousness. You can never experience a state of "no" conscious awareness unless you are in a coma.

To be conscious of something, you don't necessarily have to provide alert attention on it, however you must process it to some extent. This is evident in the cocktail party phenomenon, you process the information but you may not be specifically attending to it.

Heightened awareness may be a characteristic of an ASC (e.g. Drug induced state) but this is not necessarily the case.

Hope that helps!

Thanks but the Oxford Textbook says that when you are typing your name in a keyboard you are actively processing something out of your conscious awareness. ? Am I interpreting it wrong?

Also the heightened awareness is discussed as an actual altered state of consciousness.

[Emie]

Thanks but the Oxford Textbook says that when you are typing your name in a keyboard you are actively processing something out of your conscious awareness. ? Am I interpreting it wrong?

Also the heightened awareness is discussed as an actual altered state of consciousness.

Yes that's correct. Typing involves attending to the task with some level of conscious awareness. You can't type without being aware to some extent!

Heightened awareness is one possible characteristic of an ASC, I wouldn't describe it as a type of ASC. Types of ASCs include daydreaming, alcohol-induced state, sleep etc. 

[MDMA]

Yes it can.