Chapter 13.2: Conscious and Unconscious Processes Flashcards
Which of the following best states the identity position regarding mind and brain?
Mental activity and brain activity are the same thing
What do the following have in common: flash suppression, backward masking, and binocular rivalry?
They prevent consciousness of a stimulus that someone would otherwise perceive
What procedure is used in backward masking?
Researchers present a brief visual stimulus followed by a second, longer stimulus
If your left eye views red vertical stripes and your right eye views green horizontal stripes, what do you perceive?
Alternation between seeing red stripes and seeing green stripes
What happens when you are conscious of a stimulus that does not happen when the same stimulus is present without your consciousness of it?
The response to the stimulus spreads to much of the brain
People are conscious of a prolonged stimulus, but not one with an extremely short presentation. What happens at an intermediate duration of presentation?
People are sometimes conscious of it and sometimes not, and stimuli after the event can influence the outcome
What happens in the brain when people lose consciousness?
Activity in one brain area does not effectively spread to other areas
Certain people in a vegetative state gave possible indication of consciousness by doing what?
Different brain activity after directions of what to imagine doing
What happens in top-down attention?
The prefrontal cortex facilitates activity in appropriate sensory areas
Suppose some who is trying to divide a horizontal line in half picks a spot far to the right of center. This result suggests probable damage or malfunction in which part of the brain?
The right hemisphere
If someone has spatial neglect of the left side, which of these procedures, if any, would increase attention to a touch sensation on the left side?
Ask the person to look to the left during the touch sensation
