Critically Discuss the Roles that Conscious and Unconscious Processing Plays in Human Cognition

Consciousness is the awareness of environmental and internal cognitive events. Two lines of scientific research established consciousness as legitimate cognitive topics: research on implicit memory and physiological studies of the hippocampus and amnesic patients. Consciousness involves monitoring our environment and ourselves so that precepts, memories, and thoughts are represented in awareness so that we are able to initiate and terminate behavioural and cognitive activities (Kihlstrom, 1984). …