Ch. 5. Consciousness Flashcards
It is difficult to totally dissociate the study of consciousness from:
philosophy
Self-consciousness of our body is modelled to arise from which source(s) of sensory information?
Interoceptive and external.
When we hear a noise like the refrigerator switching off – we can feel that we have heard it all along, but without noticing it until it turns off. This is an example of _________.
phenomenal consciousness.
What defines the case where a stimulus is presented below threshold (e.g. too fast) but its effects on behaviour can still be measured?
Subliminal perception.
The defining characteristic of which phenomenon is that an individual cannot provide a conscious report about what they see but they can still respond in various ways to stimuli presented in this damaged visual field?
Blindsight.
The failure to notice a clearly visible target due to attention being diverted from the target can be defined as:
Inattentional blindness.
What is defined as our ability to make conscious choices and demonstrate free will?
Volition.
What defines the view that conciousness is an introspective illusion caused by introspection creating the misrepresentation that exeriences have special properties?
Illusionism.
In which model is consciousness suggested to require interactions across a broad range of brain areas, producing an ‘executive summary’?
Global workspace
Libet and colleagues instructed participants to start with their arm resting and whenever they were ready, to move their arm. Libet’s results suggest that:
Unconscious preparation precedes conscious awareness.
A word which, when displayed quickly but long enough to be read, speeds up recognition of the next word that is displayed, it is called a:
Supraliminal prime
Roger Sperry and his colleagues studied consciousness in individuals who had the corpus callosum severed to control epilepsy. These individuals are referred to as:
Split-brain patients
Which theory of consiocusness draws upon concepts of optimal control theory that describe how the brain controls the body to produce movement?
Attentional Schema Theory
One criticism of the Libet experiment, which tried to dmeonstrate the absence of free will, is that:
The experiments involved a simple movement of the finger so cannot be generalised to more complex behaviour.
What can be described as cognition about cognition?
Metacognition
