Psychology

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FACILITATOR:OSORO M FREDRICK
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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Introduction
Definition
• Consciousness is awareness of both external and internal stimuli
and events.
• The external events include what you attend to as you go through
your day to day activities.
• Internal events include your awareness of your sensations as well
as your thoughts and feelings. The contents of our awareness may
change from one moment to the next, since information can move
rapidly in and out of consciousness. The mind can be described as
a stream of consciousness – a continuous flow of changing
sensations, images, thoughts and feelings.
• On learning a new skill we are conscious of every step in the
procedure but with experience, it becomes automatic and there fore
we can do other things as we perform skills

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• The contents of our awareness may change
from one moment to the next, since information
can move rapidly in and out of consciousness.
The mind can be described as a stream of
consciousness – a continuous flow of changing
sensations, images, thoughts and feelings.
• On learning a new skill we are conscious of
every step in the procedure but with experience,
it becomes automatic and there fore we can do
other things as we perform skills

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Levels of Information
Processing
Conscious level
Subconscious level
Unconscious level