Psychological Terms

[NOIRTRASH]

I bought a writing article today and noticed the writer used the word SUBCONSCIOUS incorrectly. Lemme give you a clue.

CONSCIOUS: If you sense it its conscious experience. You gotta see, hear, smell, taste, or feel it. Imagination don't count. Dreams don't count. Hallucinations don't count.

UNCONSCIOUS: Unconscious stimuli usually comes outta the blue in the form of pain, hunger, fatigue, lust, thirst. Hallucinations and delusions on come from the unconscious. Thought.

SUBCONSCIOUS: Simple memory. Recollection. Recognition.

And all three states interact.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

CONFOUNDING is another word writers get wrong. PLOT TWIST is the term they use, but CONFOUNDING is what they mean.

Confounds are sensitive to diverse conditions. You can make a dandy weapon of a turkey leg if you freeze it. Put an altitude sensitive bomb on an aitplane, land the plane at Denver, and it likely wont explode. Confounds react to unexpected conditions.

I took an IQ test where I was asked to identify the odd-ball animal in the grouping. Well 4 had names starting with the letter S, and four were mammals. Two possible answers. A confound.