Ch. 4: Consciousness (§4.1-§4.5)

Question 1

Consciousness

Answer 1

one’s moment-by-moment personal, subjective experiences.

Question 2

Change blindness

Answer 2

A failure to notice large changes in one’s environment.

Question 3

endogenous attention

Answer 3

Attention that is directed voluntarily

Question 4

exogenous attention

Answer 4

Attention that is directed involuntarily by a stimulus.

Question 5

Freudian slip

Answer 5

when an unconscious thought is suddenly expressed
at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate social context

Question 6

priming

Answer 6

A facilitation in the response to a stimulus due to recent experience with that stimulus or a related stimulus.

Question 7

subliminal perception

Answer 7

The processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness.

Question 8

Automatic processing

Answer 8

occurs when a task is so well learned that we can do it without much attention.

Question 9

Controlled processing

Answer 9

difficult or unfamiliar tasks require people to pay close attention, this is slower than automatic processing, but it helps people perform in complex or novel situations.