Chapter 14 Flashcards
Conscious Thought and Unconscious Thought
Cognitive Unconscious
Mental activity that you are not aware of but that makes possible your ordinary interactions with the world.
Blind Sight
Pattern resulting from brain damage, in which the person seems unable to see in part of his or her field of vision but can often correctly respond to visual inputs when required to do so by an experiment.
Action Slips
Cases in which you do something different from what you intend.
Metacognitive Skills
Skills in monitoring and controlling their own mental processes.
Metamemory
People’s knowledge about, awareness of, and control over their own memory.
Neural Correlates
An event in the nervous system that occurs at the same time as, and may be the biological basis of, a specific mental event or state.
Neuronal Workplace Hypothesis
Claim about how the brain makes conscious experience possible; when workplace neurons link together the activity of various specialized brain areas, and this linkage makes possible integration and comparison of different types of information.
Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)
Responsible for detecting conflict in the brain.
Qualia
Term used to explain subjective experiences.
Mind-Body Problem
Where the mind is an entirely different sort of entity from the physical body, and yet the two, can influence each other.
Introspection
After-the-fact reconstruction.
Consciousness
State of awareness of sensations or ideas, such that we can reflect on sensations or ideas, know feelings to experience these sensations or ideas, and report to others that we are aware of these sensations and ideas.
Causal Attribution
Interpretation of what caused our thoughts or behavior.
