Week 3. Research Notes + (add)

1. What are the meaning of 'conscious' processing and 'unconscious' processing?

Source: 

• The Harvard Sampler
• Oxford dictionary
• etc... (Each notes has its link. When you click it, you will be able to check it.)

My Topic:

• (just definitions and traits)

What I hope to learn from this source:

• I want to learn the specific traits of conscious processing and unconscious processing and definitions and differences between them.

Notes

• Conscious means 
• 1. aware of and responding to one's surroundings
• 2. having knowledge of something

• Unconscious means
• 1. not awake and aware of responding to one's environment
• 2. done of existing without one realizing

2. What is a middle process? - preconscious

Source: 

• Each notes has its link. When you click it, you will be able to check it.

My Topic:

• I agree with Freud's theory. There is a middle process called preconscious which connects conscious and unconscious processing. Therefore it may have both traits.

What I hope to learn from this source:

• I want to learn what is the preconscious which Freud claimed.
• Relation between three types of brain processing ㅡconscious processing, preconscious, unconscious processingㅡ How do these three affect each other? or Is there no relevance at all?

Notes

• What is the Preconscious? > between conscious and unconsious

Final Thoughts 

• Preconscious must exist! Also, it has deep relationship with conscious processing and unconscious processing.

3. Examples of preconscious - Hypnosis

Source: 

• Each notes has its link. When you click it, you will be able to check it.

My Topic:

• Hypnosis is one example of preconscious.

What I hope to learn from this source:

• How hypnotherapy can be classified as a preconscious?
• How people elicit or recall their potential memory through hypnotherapy themselves?

Notes

• About Hypnotherapy 

Final thoughts

• Hypnotherapy helps people recall their memory and that is one kind of preconscious.

4. Evidences - Dr. Kappas's theory and Sigmund Freud's theory

Source: 

• http://www.dlshealthworks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/conscious-subconscious.png
• http://somatosphere.net/2009/04/unconscious-metaphor-and-metonymy.html
• http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/consciousuncon.htm

My Topic:

• Preconsious exists.
• Preconsious plays a role as a brigde.

What I hope to learn from this source:

• More specific details about Human mind and information processing levels.

Notes

• Division into three types - The top is conscious and middle is preconscious(subconscious) and bottom is unconscious. (in this picture, unconscious processing is omitted)

• Preconscious level includes those things - Memories, stored knowledge.