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Consciousness
Nature of Consciousness
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| consciousness | awareness of external stimuli and one's own mental activity |
| consciousness 2 | property of many mental processes rather than a unique mental process unto itself |
| consciousness 3 | possibility that humans are not the only creatures that experience conciousness |
| conscious level | the level at which mental activities that people are normally aware of occur |
| conscious level 2 | the orientation that you experience at any moment is at your conscious level of awareness for that moment |
| conscious level example | looking at at cube: you can hold the cube in one orientation for a few seconds before the other orientaion "POPS OUT" at you |
| nonconscious | a level of mental activity that is inaccessible to conscious awareness |
| nonconscious example | when one is not directly aware of the fact that your brain is regualting your blood pressure |
| preconscious | a level of mental activity that is not currently conscious but of which we can easily become conscious |
| preconscious 2 | varying amounts of effort may be required to bring the preconscious info into conscious info |
| preconscious exam | when playing a trivia game it is sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to draw on your store-house of preconscious memories to come up with obscure facts |
| unconscious | a level of mental activity that influences conscousness but its not conscious |
| unconscious 2 | Freud suggestes that mental events at this level, especially agression and sexual drives urges are actively kept out of our conscious |
| cogntive science/nueroscience 2 | scientist who study consciousness today; their research is closely related to the subfield of biological psychology, sensations, perception, memory, and human cognition |
| behaviorism | the main focus of psychology from 1920 to 1960 |
| John B. Watson | |
| Dualism | mind and body are seperate |
| Dualism 2 | Proposed by Rene Descartes |
| Rene Descartes | believed that the mind and body are seperate: dualism |
| Descartes | claimed that at persons soul, or conscious, is seperate from the brain but can "view" and interact with brain events throught the pineal gland |
| materialism | the mind and body are one |
| materialism 2 | argue that complex interactions among the brains nerve cells create consciousness |
| materialism ex | much as a hardware and software interact to create the image that appears on the screen |
| materialism 3 | support for their beliefs come from case studies in which damage to the brain causes disruptions in consciousness |
| theatre view of consciousness | consciounsness is a single phenomonon, a kind of stage in which all the various aspects of awareness converge to "play" before the "audience" of your mind |
| parallel distributed processing | describe the mind as processing many parallel stream of information, which interact somehow tp create the unitary experience we know as consciousness |
| parallel distributed processing 2 | became influential when research on sensation, perception, memory, cognition, and language suggested that components of these processes are analyzed im seperate brain regions |
| William James | compared consciousness to a stream, multilayered, and varying in both quantity and qualitiy |
| stream of consciousness | describing it as ever changing |
| levels of consciousness | variations in quantity in the degree to which one is aware of mental events |
| Necker Cube | two squares in the cube can be percieved as either the front or rear surface of the cube |
| Priming | people tend to respond faster or more accurately to previously seen stimuli, even when they can not consciously recall having seen those stimulo |
| role of thalamus | |
| prosopagnosia | cannot consciously recognize faces- not even own reflection- yet they can still see and recognize many other objects and can still recognize people by their voices |
| altered states of consciousness | a condition in which changes in mental processes are extensive enough that a person or others notice significant differences in psychological and behavioral functioning |
| anterograde amnesia | |
| hippocampus | |
| hallucinations | are perceptual experiences that occur in the absemse of sensory stimuli |
| hallucinations ex | hearing voices that are not real |
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