Thinkers and philosophers since antiquity looked for the answer to a question: what is the consciousness. Disputes were conducted throughout many centuries around this concept and its opportunities. They do not cease and still.
It is required to you
- The textbook on psychology.
Instruction
1. Theoretical bases of this public phenomenon the psychologist of the present of Tulving studied and presented to readers And. It divided it into three separate components: anoetichny (procedural memory when we do not understand anything at all, but at the same time we register signals from the environment), noetichny (semantic memory when all of us understand something) and avtonoetichny (incidental memory, what we realize about ourselves).
2. The public phenomenon of consciousness of the modern person consists in that, consciousness is a product of history of all mankind in general, a result of development of a great number of generations. However, to understand in effect this phenomenon, it is necessary to find out what everything began with. Consciousness began development with evolution of mentality of animals. Thus, before emergence of the reasonable person millions of years necessary conditions were created.
3. Development of consciousness began with the simplest organisms and plants at which the ability to react to various influences of the world around began to be formed. It is called irritability. It is accepted to call this stage of development of mentality touch. Later millions of years the organisms began to feel by means of formation of sense organs. It resulted in ability to gain separate properties, such as color, form. The highest form of consciousness animals had a perception. It allowed to represent objects entirely. And the highest forms of mammals even had elements of the simplest thinking. Having united all listed stages and stages and having added feelings and will, also semantic memory developed.
4. The concept of consciousness can be presented by means of the following definition. Consciousness is the highest form of reflection of surrounding reality. It is peculiar only to the person, is connected by the separate functions of a brain which are responsible, first of all, for the speech. Therefore a core of consciousness is knowledge. Consciousness always belongs to the subject, that is the person.
5. Criteria of consciousness include several important points. For example, people in difference from animals understand and learn, are capable to improve. The consciousness and introspection and also self-checking are inherent in consciousness. Formation of these criteria happens if the person can allocate himself from surrounding reality. Thus, the consciousness is the main and most important difference of the reasonable person from mentality of the developed animal.