Chapter 4 4.1

Question 1

Consciousness - Definition

Answer 1

The awareness of external stimuli and our own mental activity.

Question 2

Mind-body-monism (materialism) vs. dualism

Answer 2

Dualism teaches that mind and body are two really distinct principle’s Monism maintains that both mental and corporeal phenomena are merely different manifestations of what is really one and the same reality.

Question 3

PDP

Answer 3

model information processing the way it actually takes place in the brain

Question 4

Cognitive neuroscience

Answer 4

The biological processes that underlie humans cognition, especially in regards to the relation between brain structures, activity, and cognitive functions

Question 5

Functions

Answer 5

Planning
Decisions
Actions

Question 6

Levels of consciousness

Answer 6

Nonconscious - The level of consciousness at which processes are inaccessible of conscious awareness.

Conscious - The level of consciousness at which mental activities accessible to awareness occur.

Preconscious - The level of consciousness at which mental events are not currently conscious but can become conscious at will.

Unconscious - The term used to describe a level of mental activity said by Freud to contain unacceptable sexual, aggressive, and other impulses of which an individual is unaware.

Question 7

Blindsight

Answer 7

The conscious experience of blindness, often feeling like they are guessing despite their high level of accuracy.

Question 8

Priming

Answer 8

Occurs when an individual’s exposure to a specific stimulus influences their response to a subsequent prompt without any awareness of the connection.

Question 9

Subliminal Messages - Music and Movies

Answer 9

A hideen visual or auditory message that the brain acknowledges or preceives but does not process.

Question 10

WM

Answer 10

A cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.

Question 11

Prosopagnosia

Answer 11

A neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces.

Question 12

Anteograde amnesia

Answer 12

A type of memory loss that occurs when you can’t form new memories.

Question 13

Altered State of Consciousnss

Answer 13

A condition that exists when changes in mental processes are extensive enough to produce noticeable differences in psychological and behavioral functioning

Day dreaming
meditation
sleep
anebriation & drugs

Question 14

Hallucinations

Answer 14

A false perception of objects or events involving your senses:
sight
sound
smell
touch
taste