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Ch. 8 Consciousness Flashcards

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Cartesian Theatre

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Rene Descartes. Mental screen or stage, objects appear on for viewing by the minds eye

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Hard Problem of Consciouness

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The difficulty of explaining how subjective experience could ever arise

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Phenomenology

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How things actually seem in the state of consciousness in term of quality of experience

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Homunculus Problem

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Difficulty of explaining the experience of consciousness by advocating another internal self

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Problem of other minds

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The fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of other

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Qualia

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Subjective experiences as part of our mental life

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Materialism

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Philosophical position that mental states are a product of physical process alone

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Anthropologie orphism

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the tendency to attribute humans qualities to nonhuman things

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Mind-Body Provlem

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the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body

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Choice Blindness

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When people are unaware of their decision-making processes and justify a choice as uf it were already decided

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Change Blindness

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When people are unaware of significant event changes that happen in full view

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Dichotic listening

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a task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each ear

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cocktail party phenomenon

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people tune in to one message even while filtering out others nearby

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Minimal Consciousness

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a low level of awareness that occurs when the mind input sensations and may output behaviour

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Full consciouness

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Consciouness in which you known and are able to report your mental state

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self-consciousness

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a distinct level of consciousness in which the persons attention is drawn to the self as an object

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Daydreaming

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a state of consciousness in which a seemingly purposeless flow of thoughts comes to minds

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Mental Control

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the attempt to change conscious states of mind

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thought suppression

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THE CONSCIOUS AVOIDANCE OF A THOUGHT

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rebound effect of thought suppression

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the tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression

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ironic processes of mental control

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mental processes that can produce ironic errors because monitoring for errors can itself produce them

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dynamic unconscious

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an active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the persons deepest instincts and desires, and the persons inner struggle to control these forces

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repression

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a mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness and keeps them in the unconscious

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cognitive unconscious

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the mental process that are not experienced by the person but give rise to the persons thoughts, choices, emotions and behavior

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subliminal perception
a thought or behaviour that is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving
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selective attention
the process whereby we focus mental processing on a limited range of events
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information bottleneck
when the channel of information processing has a limited capacity
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early filter model
selective attention model that proposes that information is discarded early in the stream of processing
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attenuation model
selective attention model that proposes that information is not entirely discarded in the stream of processing but is suppressed relative to other important signals
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response selection model
selective attention model that proposes that selection occurs late in the stream of processing before a response has been made
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load model
attentional model that explains early and late selection as a consequence of the task difficulty
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unilateral visual neglect
a condition where patients fail to notice or attend to stimuli that appear on the side of space opposite the site of a hemispheric lesion
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balint's Syndrome
an attentional disorder where the patient loses the ability to volintairily shift visual attention to new locations, which is associated with damage to both sides of the brain
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blindsight
residual visual capability supported by subcortical mechanisms, following removal or damage to cortical visual areas
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altered states of consciousness
forms of experience that depart from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind
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circadian rhythm
a naturally occurring 24-hour cycle
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REM sleep
a stage of sleep characterised by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity. sometimes known as paradoxical sleep
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electrooculograph (EOG)
measures eye movements
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thermoregulation
biological processes that maintain optimal body heat during different states of wakefulness
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Immune system
biological defence system for combating potential disease from both internal and external invaders
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Metabolism
bio processes convert stored resources into energy
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insomina
difficulty falling or staying asleep
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sleep apnea
a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep
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somnambulism (sleep walking)
arises and walks around while asleep and unaware
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manifest content
a dream's apparent topic or superficial meaning
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latent content
A dream's true underlying meaning
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vegetative state
a state of wakefulness without awareness and overt communication
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psychoactive drug
a chemical that influences consciousness or behaviour by altering the brains chemical message system
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harm reduction approach
a response to high-risk behaviours that focuses on reducing the harm such behaviours have on peoples lives
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hallucinogens
drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations
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cannabis
drug derived from the hemp plant
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hypnosis
social interaction in which one person makes suggestion that lead to s change in another persons subjective experience of the world
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behavior compliance
doing what you are told or expected to do
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posthypnotic amnesia
the failure to retrieve memories following hypnotic suggestions to forget
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hyponotic analgesia
the reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are susceptible to hypnosis
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mediation
the practice of intentional contemplation

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