Each person has his own internal model of the surrounding world and in psychology it is called consciousness, and the interest in one's own self, which has long been the subject of attention of psychologists, is called self-consciousness.
The definition of consciousness and self-awareness in psychology
Have you ever noticed that when you read a book, going headlong into its plot, you do not notice how you perceive words, turn over pages? At this moment in the psyche reflects what is described in the work. From a psychological point of view, you are in the book world, its reality. But imagine that at this moment the phone is ringing. At that moment, consciousness turns on: it is a readable book, an inner "I". As a result, you realize that the house, the book, the chair on which you sit - all this exists objectively, and what caused the plot (emotions, feelings, impressions) was subjective. Proceeding from this, consciousness is the acceptance of reality, regardless of the existing being.
It is worth noting that consciousness works as long as a person learns something, knows something. This continues until the acquired skills are not brought to automatism. Otherwise, it will interfere with you. For example, a professional pianist, reflecting on where the note "to" is located, will necessarily falsify.
If we talk about self-awareness, then in psychology it is the sum of various processes of a psychic nature, thanks to which a person is able to realize himself as a subject of reality. The representations of each person about himself add up to what is commonly called the "image of the" I ". The most interesting thing is that each of us has an infinite number of such images ("How I perceive myself," "How do people see me," "What I really am," etc.)
Relationship of self-awareness and consciousness
Consciousness and self-awareness of the person collide, first of all, when
If we talk about the formation of reflection, it begins as early as school age, most actively manifested in adolescence. So, when a person asks the question "Who am I?", He activates his inner self, self-consciousness, and in the analysis of reality his place in it manifests the consciousness of the individual.