CH 15

Question 1

What is consciousness?

Answer 1

state of being aware of sensations/ideas (able to reflect, know what it feels like to experience, report to others)

Question 2

The Cognitive Unconscious

Answer 2

mental activities that enable our interactions with the world (series of actions not aware of, but aware of their products)
even awareness of own thoughts is subject to unconscious forces

Question 3

Examples of unconscious reasoning

Answer 3

false fame effect
placebo + electric shocks
introspection
framing effect

Question 4

What does introspection rely on?

Answer 4

After-the Fact reconstruction (reflecting on why you behaved the way you did)
-may be inaccurate

Question 5

Subliminal Perception

Answer 5

influenced by visual inputs not consciously perceived

Question 6

Examples of subliminal perception

Answer 6

N400 brain wave: when you see unexpected things=larger N400 energy
e.g. word association presentation (very->happy->war) had largest energy

Question 7

Limits of unconscious processing

Answer 7

illusions: set shortcuts in perceiving

action slips: do something differently than intended (due to habit)

Question 8

Unconscious processes

Answer 8

operate without supervision and automatic, leading to simultaneous operation (via biology- dif areas of brain responsibility & practice)

Question 9

Metacognitive skills

Answer 9

monitors and controls own mental processes

Question 10

Mind body problem

Answer 10

mind is entirely dif entity than body, work together

Question 11

Materialism

Answer 11

mind is product of brain (physical)