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Do we have access to our own mental processes? High-‐level v. low ...

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Hypothesis: The subjects <strong>we</strong>re aware,<br />

on some level, that they <strong>we</strong>re accepting<br />

shocks for no good reason and so<br />

“decided” that the shocks <strong>we</strong>re not so<br />

painful after all (otherwise, why would<br />

they be accepting them?).<br />

This “decision” had concrete effects,<br />

both cognitive (their improved<br />

learning) and physiological (their skin<br />

responses).

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