[CC] State of Consciousness

Question 1

Loosely defined consciousness.

Answer 1

awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 2

William James

Answer 2

“Consciousness is a continuously moving, shifting, unbroken stream”

Question 3

What are the main states of consciousness that we all experience?

Answer 3

waking
sleeping
dreaming

Question 4

cognitive neuroscience

Answer 4

the study of how brain activity is linked with our mental processes

Question 5

structural imaging

Answer 5

to study anatomy, useful in detecting tumors and other anatomical abnormalities

Question 6

dual processing

Answer 6

the principle that information is siultaenously processed on separate conscious and non-conscious tracks

Question 7

selective attention

Answer 7

the focusing of consciousness on a particular stimulus/group of stimuli

Question 8

Cocktail Party Effect

Answer 8

focusing on a specific set of stimuli until your attention is redirected towards another stimuli

Question 9

inattentional blindness

Answer 9

obvious things you fail to notice due to attention on specific things

Question 10

The Invisible Gorilla

Answer 10

A psychological study in which participants are asked to count how many times a certain team passes a basketball. While focusing on the ball, roughly 50% of participants fail to realize that there is a dancing gorilla who walks on the stage half way through the video, thus proving the psychological phenomenon of inattentional blindness.

Question 11

change blindness

Answer 11

psychological phenomenon in which we fail to notice changes in our environment