Author Question: Contemporary cognitive psychology still contains a concept of a cognitive unconscious that is ... (Read 93 times)

kellyjaisingh · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Contemporary cognitive psychology still contains a concept of a cognitive unconscious that is motivated and goal driven. The concept is different from Freuds ideas about the unconscious primarily in that the modern concept conceives of the unconscious as

a. a much weaker, inconsequential cognitive factor.
b. somewhat darker, more conniving and controlling in its activity
c. more powerful in its ability to keep information from the light of consciousness.
d. more of a helper with the regulation of thoughts, emotions, etc.

Question 2

In the topographic model, thoughts that are just outside our awareness but are easily accessible are contained in the

a. unconscious.
b. motivated conscious.
c. preconscious.
d. anticonscious.

matt95 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: d: as more of a helper with the regulation of thoughts, emotions, etc.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c: preconscious.