The Subconscious Analysis That Shapes Our Lives

This shows how gut feelings could lead to biased and judgmental reactions. And only after we take a step back to thoroughly process the information and weigh out the consequences of our reaction, should we make impactful decisions in some situations, like when a single mum of four that has recently lost her job stole some fruits from a fruit stand to feed her hungry children who have not eaten in some days. Yes, the gut might say that stealing is wrong, but that alone should not be the only basis to why stealing is wrong. When we do as our gut wills, we make decisions without much considerations, without having enough information to support our argument, without thinking that there might be other better options and reasons to buttress our initial gut feeling, and without ever thinking that we could be wrong somehow.

Compare and Contrast the approach to studying children’s friendships taken in the Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) study with that taken by William Corsaro.

In today’s session, group members learned about how thoughts and emotions contribute to behavior, and how to observe, analyze and responses to those thoughts and emotions in different ways. The common behavior traits that related to substance use were discussed, as well.

In one experiment, involving various bad smells, it was noted that the participants that had been exposed to a mild-stink or strong-stink smell were more severe in their moral judgements than participants exposed to no bad smell. In all four experiments, the same results were obtained, participants that felt disgust were likely to be more severe in their judgments. This paper concludes that participants who believe in their intuitions were often tricked by outside forces, such as a bad smell. Noting this phenomenon, the paper suggests that self-awareness of these outside factors can help mitigate their effect. However, they also suggest it is not wise to completely remove somatic markers. In one study, the patients were not able to incorporate feelings and sensations into their decision making; as a result, the patients were unable to come to conclusions on any simple subject matter. The paper concludes that it is ok to rely on these intuitions even if they can be easily influenced, but it also says we must be aware of factors that can distort our intuitions. By following this methodology, one can mitigate making biased decisions due to his or her

Author, Kevin Carley, discusses the evolution of the human brain and how the history affects the unconscious use of our brain when one makes decisions. This article emphasizes on Gestalts principals of awareness, senses, and the technique in which the human brain aligns with these principals. Correspondingly, Carley, expresses the links between Gestalts principals, evolutionary biology, and cultural psychology (Carley, 2014, p. 80).

Humans obtain the ability to quickly read facial expressions and generalize personality traits. This is commonly known as intuition; the results of unconscious thinking, allowing for the

We laugh about the person who says, ‘I know I’m right; don’t confuse me with arguments’. And yet there are times when we find ourselves wanting to say that too. For there are situations in which we feel sure that we know something, even though if asked to give a good argument to back up our claim we are at a loss to know quite how to do so. ‘I know you’re the person I spoke to on the bus yesterday.’ ‘I know I have two hands.’ ‘I know it is wrong to let that child starve.’ ‘I know that six minus four leaves two.’ Our experience of being confident that we are right in cases like those is often called intuition. Intuitive knowing seems to be a direct, convincing way of knowing, which needs no further argument. And it is a perfectly ordinary,

Psychology is as ancient as mankind. The concept of psychology has been dated back to 600 B.C. Early Greek philosophers examined, theorized human traits and their actions; their studies are now to be considered and known as psychology. Mankind has molded psychology throughout decades into what it is today - the study of the human mind and the way it affects one's behavior. Psychotherapy and ESP, extrasensory perception, are techniques that are used to improve human health and well-being and their efficacy is widely debated.

Experienced therapist can learn how to use the simplistic approach again from the mistakes and lapses of beginning therapist. When a beginning therapist makes a mistake, they go back to the basic skills of psychology, an experienced therapist can learn from this because they could be set in their way of doing things. By going back to the basic, it breaks the cycle of the way they’ve been doing things and allows them to think outside of the box. No matter how many years you’re in the field, there is always room to improve and learn new things. Watching beginning therapist reminds the experienced therapist about the time when they wanted to know everything and learn new ways of doing things.

Psychodynamic theories of psychology focuses on the subconscious self, influencing behaviors of an individual and are used to explain the development of mental illness and abnormalities. The basis of psychodynamics is Sigmund Freud’s theory in which he describes three states of mind vying for their preferred goal: the Id concerned with obtaining pleasure, the Superego concerned with upholding morality, and the Ego which uses reason to balance the desires of the two extremes. Freud describes three levels of consciousness the conscious which is what ideas we always know about, the preconscious which is ideas that we can make conscious, and the unconscious which is the ideas that are underneath our understanding which may include suppressed memories of traumatic events. He sees human motivation coming from a vague notion of instincts which include the life instinct which drives people to stimulate themselves/survive and the death instinct which drives people to be calm, serene, slipping into death. Freud gives great importance to human sexuality in his theories by linking such dilemmas during the childhood stages of development of the “sex instinct” to mental problems in adulthood in the form of subconscious ideas about the past influencing current actions. He sees defense mechanisms in people’s actions as an attempt to protect the person’s view of self or to protect from revealing something they don’t want known, certain cues like forgetting what to say reveal that there is

Throughout the opening examples presented in Miller's essay, the conscious mind is typically observed inadvertently, usually as a byproduct of attempting socioeconomic and political gains and typically through some form of pseudoscience as its medium. However, as the essay progresses—and the time frame the examples take place within advances—the conscious mind begins to be observed both intentionally and in ways more closely resembling the principles of modern science. For instance, Braid's investigations of hypnotic phenomena failed to thoroughly recognize the role of consciousness in the results of his experimentation. Rather, the concept of such a role, “the condition of the patient's nervous system,” (14), in the causing of the hypnotic

According to Hawkins, Elder, & Paul (2010) Clinical reasoning is “thinking through the various aspects of patient care to arrive at a reasonable decision regarding the prevention, diagnoses, or treatment of a clinical problem in a specific patient” (p. 3.) The

The normal mind does not focus on the here and now - the time and place that you are! The normal mind's cognitive functions ensure that you pay little or no attention to the here and now - the time and place that you've got to turn up to to get anything worth talking about from your life. The normal mind's capabilities that allow us to repeatedly perform routine functions mindlessly result in us doing pretty much everything mindlessly. And, all the while, the normal subconscious mind is indulging in its obsession with the key events of our formative years - the conditioning that has made us who we think we are. Quite obviously, this way of using your mind simply leads to what de Mello describes as the 'nightmare' than the normal mind sleepwalks through.

In order to avoid being burned by your own intuition and predictably losing all trust in your gut, you must understand the limits of intuition and when to trust it appropriately. On his podcast Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam explores the concept of automaticity, a psychological term for acting without thought. Though sometimes necessary for self-defense, acting thoughtlessly can go badly and even violently when it involves anger. If a person takes a moment to think before lashing out in anger, they can avoid fights and other bad behavior. According to the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, each of us can practice new thoughts and patterns of behavior to change bad habits, avoid knee-jerk reactions, and even talk ourselves out of a bout of depression by reminding ourselves that “feelings of sadness can be transient.” However, Vedantam states, “mostly, this kind of therapy takes place one-on-one with a trained expert.” So, reasoning through a thought process with a trained professional can be beneficial, but when left to our own devices, intuition may still be the best

I've been dying to write an article/essay on intuition and gut feeling and I've been dying to write an article/essay on intuition and I finally took the time to gather my thoughts and put them to words. So here it goes.