AP Psychology States of Consciousness Review | 64 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

Daydreaming - Where you have irrelevant thoughts surface, images of other situations come into view, and you create inner, private realities unrelated to the current task; provides stimulation when your interest is flagging and lets you experience positive emotions. Attention - A state of focused awareness, which is what you process into perceptions, thoughts, and experiences. Consciousness - Your awareness of the outside world and yourself; enables you to analyze, compare, and interpret experience, and allows you to integrate what you already know, what you perceive in the present, and what you anticipate. Preconscious - The level of consciousness that is outside of awareness but contains feelings and memories that you can easily bring into conscious awareness. Nonconscious - The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely inaccessible to conscious awareness, such as blood flow, filtering of blood by kidneys, secretion of hormones, and lower level processing of sensations, such as detecting edges, estimating size and distance of objects, recognizing patterns, etc.. Psychoanalysts (psychodynamic) - Psychologists that focus on the subconscious. Unconscious (subconscious) - The level of consciousness that includes often unacceptable feelings, wishes, and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness. Dual processing - Refers to processing information on conscious and unconscious levels at the same time. Unconsciousness - Characterized by lack of responsiveness to the environment resulting from disease, trauma, or anesthesia.Hypothalamus - Controls your finely tuned "biological clock", which systematically regulates changes in your body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, blood sugar levels, hormonal levels, and activity levels over the course of about a day