5.1-5.6: Consciousness, Awareness, and Arousal

Question 1

The moment-by-moment awareness of the external environment as well as one’s own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Answer 1

Consciousness

Question 2

The process of examining one’s own internal thoughts and feelings

Answer 2

Introspect

Question 3

The act of focusing one’s attention onto a particular aspect of one’s experience, to the exclusion of everything else

Answer 3

Selective attention

Question 4

A failure to perceive information that is outside the focus of one’s attention

Answer 4

Inattentional blindness

Question 5

A form of inattentional blindness, in which a person fails to notice changes in a visual stimulus

Answer 5

Change blindness

Question 6

The ability to perform a task without conscious awareness or attention

Answer 6

Automaticity

Question 7

The various mental processes that support everyday functioning without conscious awareness or control

Answer 7

Cognitive unconscious

Question 8

A form of perception that occurs without conscious awareness

Answer 8

Subliminal perception

Question 9

An interconnected system of brain regions that are active when the mind is alert and aware but not focused on any particular task, such as during mind wandering

Answer 9

Default mode network

Question 10

The hypothesis that conscious awareness arises from synchronized activity, from across various brain regions, that is integrated into coherent representations of an experience

Answer 10

Global workspace hypothesis