Module 8 - consciousness

Question 1

consciousness

Answer 1

subjective awareness of oneself and one’s environment

Question 2

altered states of consciousness (9)

Answer 2

1. daydreaming
2. hallucinations
3. sensory deprivation
4. drowsiness
5. orgasm
6. hypnosis
7. dreaming
8. food or oxygen starvation
9. meditation

Question 3

“easy” problem of consciousness

Answer 3

• how the brain processes information on a basic level
• ex: how is the color red detected and recognized

Question 4

“hard” problem of consciousness

Answer 4

• how “Quail” (subjective, qualitative experiences) emerge
• ex: what it “feels like” to experience the color red

Question 5

selective attention

Answer 5

• focusing on something at the expense of other things
• takes too much metabolic energy to focus on everything all the time

Question 6

inattention blindness

Answer 6

• failing to notice something in plain sight because your attention is focus on something else

Question 7

change blindness

Answer 7

• failing to notice a change, typically after an interruption

Question 8

dual processing

Answer 8

• we can process things automatically and unconsciously, but also more deliberately using conscious processes

Question 9

parallel processing

Answer 9

• processing a scene all at once
• simple feature search
• number of distractors doesn’t change search time

Question 10

serial search

Answer 10

• processing items one at a time
• common for conjunction search

Question 11

blindsight

Answer 11

• rare condition in which a patient can detect and even use visual information, but ht visual information doesn’t reach conscious awareness
• ex: not knowing subconsciously to step around objects when walking down a hallway