Consciousness as the Unity of Higher Psychic Processes

Consciousness is considered as a whole activity, a synthesis of all higher psychic processes, i.e. perception, attention, memory, thinking, emotions and speech; their mutual conditionality is outlined. The unique contribution of each psychic process to consciousness is presented and the most significant connections between them revealed. The cerebral asymmetry is described as a specificity of each psychic function manifestation in the right and left‐brain hemispheres. Certain development principles, common to all the considered functions, are formulated. The application of these principles to the system of psychic processes makes it possible to indicate explicitly the mechanisms of continuous self‐learning.