Questions tagged [unconscious]
For questions about mental processes that are not available to consciousness.
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Different kinds of reaction time
During a physics experiment at school we needed to determine the velocity of a car by using a stopwatch to measure the time it took to cross a line. We were told to calculate the uncertainty of the ...
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Can unconscious wishes be fulfilled via actions based on conscious or unconscious identification?
Suppose I unconsciously want to sleep with my mother (I'm not sure I do: it's just a hypothetical). Can that unconscious wish to do so be fulfilled by sleeping with yours, if I consciously or ...
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Any researchers doing research in Nietzschean psychology?
I am eager to do research in Nietzschean psychology
Are there any researchers doing research in this area?
Thanks in advance.
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Background and cron jobs running in the unconscious? [duplicate]
Personal example: Hofstadter, in "Fluid Concepts...", throws the anagram "ucilgars" at me. (Note I'm a German, I would probably solve a comparable riddle fast if in my mother ...
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Does our brain unconsciously keeps track of time? [duplicate]
I’ve had multiple experiences lately where I didn’t look at my phone for a while and then right before I looked I made an approximation of the time and most of the time that approximation was right to ...
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Change in perceived direction of body when laying in bed [closed]
Sometimes when I lie in bed, with my eyes closed, I get the sense that my head is actually at the bottom of the bed, where my feet usually are, when I know it is still resting on the pillow on the top ...
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A Collective Unconscious That's Alive? [closed]
I'm currently conversing in the context of Carl Jung's concept of collective unconscious and Rollo May's concept of Dasein (Ratner, 2019). I frequently notice that some social contexts are very ...
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Can Krashen's Input Hypotheses be applied to areas other than Language Acquisition?
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Stephen Krashen and Tracy Tarrell have given an interesting approach to learning new languages which they call Natural Approach. In this approach, they bring the naturalistic approach of ...
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What can coma patients report about their experiences - if anything?
Coma is correlated to a significant inactivity of the cerebral cortex and the reticular activating system, while other parts of the brain - e.g. the limbic system - might still show considerable ...
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Can a sequence of "automatic" tasks be seen in an EEG?
Say I train a task that consists of a sequence of smaller events a 1000 times such that it becomes an automatic/subconscious (something like muscle memory) movement. Then when I view the EEG signal ...
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System 1 and unconsious
Kahneman (2011) apparently suggests there is system 1 and system 2 in decision making.
If I am not wrong he says system 1 is more prone to errors because it is automatic. Is this correct assumption ...
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is it unconcious?
Roughly speaking, I as well as some other people probably have observer following.
(1) Sometimes ideas start to come to me out of nowhere, (2) then we sometimes analyze it further and either reject or ...
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Bottom up thinking - what is it?
Mlodinow has book Elastic thinking, which sounds interesting and where he mentions bottom up processes/thinking; which he equates with elastic thinking.
I have watched numerous videos about it, and ...
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What is the difference between getting high( i.e. using alcohol or similar things) and getting unconcious using general anesthesia?
I searched the internet about the difference but couldnt really understand it.I am not asking about the difference in the type of drugs used, Iam interested in the difference in the state of ...
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System 1 and 2 thinking and unconcious
Research says there is system 1 and 2 thinking.
My question is how is system and and 2 thinking related to unconcious mind?
Can we say for example system 1 thinking is unconcious mind?
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