The main function of consciousness

The main functions of consciousness are as follows:

First, dominate individual behavior: consciousness determines behavior, and behavior is a reflection of consciousness. Everyone has a cognition of himself: what kind of person I am. So when introducing yourself, what kind of person will you describe yourself as? In practice, you will unconsciously act according to the characteristics of that person.

For example, a classmate thinks he is short, so he will pay special attention to those students with higher altitude in his daily life and compare them constantly to prove his point of view. ?

Second, determine the individual's attribution: Attribution is the reason analysis of the individual's behavior process to himself or others. Different individuals can have the same behavior experience, but each individual's attribution to this experience is quite different. Different attribution depends on individual's unique self-consciousness.

For example, students with positive self-awareness will attribute their failure in the final exam to their failure to review carefully and will continue to encourage themselves to study harder in the future; Students with negative self-awareness will attribute their failure to their incompetence, constantly deny themselves and become more and more negative. In fact, when the negative self-awareness of individuals is dominant, any behavior or experience will be associated with negative self-evaluation; On the contrary, when positive self-awareness dominates, all experiences will be given positive significance.

Third, reflect the level of mental health: self-awareness is the sum of all the inner worlds of individuals, and it is also the core part of personality, which plays a vital role in the development and shaping of individual personality. The development degree of self-awareness reflects the individual's psychological maturity and development level. A large number of psychological experiments have also proved that individuals' social maladjustment and interpersonal disharmony are mainly caused by incorrect self-cognition.

Only with a sound self-awareness can we correctly understand and accept ourselves and rationally analyze the relationship between ourselves and the surrounding environment, so as to maintain good social adaptation and interpersonal relationships and safeguard our mental health. In short, a sound self-awareness can promote individual self-realization and maximize individual psychological potential through reasonable self-awareness, good self-experience and conscious self-control.

Self-awareness is the enhancement of self-awareness. Contrary to the philosophical state of self-consciousness, this is the concern for oneself, and self-consciousness is the consciousness of individual existence, although these two terms are usually used interchangeably or synonymously. When people realize that they are observing or observing someone, they may have an unpleasant sense of self, that is, the feeling that "everyone is watching" themselves. Some people are habitually more conscious than others. Unpleasant self-awareness is sometimes associated with shyness or paranoia.