NEWSBÜCHERJOURNALEONLINE-SHOP



 

Sie befinden sich hier: NEWS » Aktuelle News Psychologie » News lesen

« zurück

Psychology: Consciousness Remains in the Hands of Unconscious

Human motor responses are of different types: 1. Voluntary and deliberate actions, 2. automatic actions, 3. responses to affective-emotional stimuli, 4. rhythmic-involuntary actions, 5. reflexes. Why are some kinds of behaviour accompanied by conciousness - and others not? Professor Dr. Gerhard Roth (Bremen) provides a precise, detailed overview in his contribution to the textbook "New Issues in Experimental and Applied Psychology".

The psychologist remarks: Our actions are "controlled by different brain systems in a conscious or unconscious, deliberate or automatic, experience-dependent or inborn-reflex-like manner. Most of what we do in our daily life is done either unconsciously or with only accompanying consciousness.

The reason for these differences is that the brain acts in a highly economical way, i.e., whenever possible things are done in a ´cheap´, fast and precise manner by unconscious subcortical mechanisms, which are either inborn or automatic. Only those types of information and problems that are sufficiently important and for which the brain has no pre-established program, are ´uploadet´ into cortical consciousness. This system is metabolically expensive, slow, error-prone, but it is the only cerebral system that can handle detailed and complex, often multisensory information and create novel solutions.
 
Consciousness is not unique to humans, but found at least in all mammals and birds and maybe in many other animals, although probably not in all forms found in humans. Since humans, more than any other animals, live in a complex and unstable natural and social environment, consciousness and conscious, voluntary control of actions has become especially important, but nevertheless remains in the hand of the unconscious."

New Issues in Experimental and Applied Psychology – A Festschrift for Alf Zimmer
Greenlee, M.W. (Ed.)




alttext    

 

Aktuell

Socials

Fachzeitschriften