1. Mental activity is unconscious if people are unaware of it. For example, you might tap your toe to music without realizing it.
2. Something is unconscious if it happens without effort. For example, in speaking, you retrieve most words in your everyday vocabulary quickly and smoothly, without conscious effort.
3. An unconscious action is one that is unintended. For example, you might accidentally call one person by another person's name.
4. An unconscious mental process is autonomous (runs by itself, without conscious attention). For example, you set your alarm to 7 a.m. and find yourself waking up at 6:59 a.m.
5. A behavior is unconscious if it resists conscious control, for example, a person might not be able to stop saying "um" or "you know" despite trying.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlUnconscious Thought Processes | in Chapter 03: States of Consciousness | from Psychology: An Introduction by Russ Dewey - 0 views
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the fourth-being autonomous-seems to be the broadest
Behaviourism - 0 views
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To the behaviourist about clocks, a clock is simply something with such time-indicating exterior parts
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The inner workings of any clock are entirely irrelevant to its status as a clock, provided they produce (or at least don't interfere with) the movement of the hands. The anti-behaviourist, by contrast, thinks of a clock as an inner mechanism which, in favourable circumstances, can cause some exterior parts to move in a way which reliably indicates the time
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The dope on steroids: Why some athletes take the risk : UMNews : University of Minnesota - 0 views
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The stakes in Athens are fierce. The difference between an Olympic gold or silver medal could be a one hundredth of a second on the track or in the pool; an inch on the pole vault or shot put.
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The athletes who make the Olympic cut are blessed with the right combination of physical and psychological traits, including an intense competitive drive and an unrelenting determination to be the best. This is the stuff of champions.
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Steroids are not just for elite athletes--they can be used by anyone who wants to change his or her body image. The Centers for Disease Control's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report shows more than a million youth taking steroids, and the numbers have been rising every year.
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Steroid Use Causes Long-term Agression, Northeastern University Report Indicates - 0 views
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who studies the link between steroid use and aggression, has recently found evidence that use of anabolic steroids may have long-term effects on behavior and aggression levels well after they stop abusing these performance enhancing drugs.
Classics in the History of Psychology -- Skinner (1948) - 0 views
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Whenever we present a state of affairs which is known to be reinforcing at a given drive, we must suppose that conditioning takes place
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The bird happens to be executing some response as the hopper appears; as a result it tends to repeat this response.
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effect appears to depend upon the rate of reinforcement
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