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Conscious and Unconscious Responses
A conscious response is deliberate and takes a detour through the brain. An unconscious response happens without you — and often before you're even aware the stimulus arrived. The difference is not intelligence, it's routing.
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Every thought, movement and feeling is electricity running down a cell and chemicals jumping a gap. The gap is where nearly everything interesting happens.
Conscious responses involve deliberate cortical processing and awareness, while unconscious responses bypass conscious centres and execute automatically without awareness of the stimulus.
what examiners catch — Examiners test whether students can correctly identify that reflex arcs are unconscious because they are initiated in the spinal cord before reaching the brain, not simply because they are fast.
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this conceptconscious and unconscious responsesConscious responses involve deliberate cortical processing and awareness, while unconscious responses bypass conscious centres and execute automatically without awareness of the stimulus.
sits under itthe nervous system's command structurebecause conscious vs unconscious is a routing question
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