unconscious processes
Mind's hidden machinery
Unconscious processes are mental activities occurring outside awareness—the automatic operations of perception, memory, and decision-making that happen without deliberate thought.
Breathing, recognizing faces, and forming first impressions all involve unconscious processing.
In psychoanalytic theory, unconscious processes include repressed desires and conflicts influencing behavior: His hostility toward authority figures stemmed from unconscious processes rooted in childhood.
- habitsRegular repeated behaviors
- basal gangliaSubcortical motor-control nuclei
- amygdalaEmotion-processing brain cluster
- automaticitySelf-generating action capacity
- autopilot modeAutomated control setting
learned behavior · repression · reflexes · fight or flight · gut feelings · gut reaction · heuristics · emotional resonance · default mode network · muscle memory · transference · defense mechanisms · dream symbolism · priming · blindsight · body language · conditioned responses · knee jerk reaction
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