Chapter 5 Flashcards
Consciousness
Consciousness
A person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind.
Phenomenology
How things seem to the conscious person.
Problem of Other Minds
The fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of other.
Expirence
The ability to feel pain, pleasure, hunger, consciousness, anger, or fear.
Agency
The ability for self-control, planning, memory, or thought.
Mind-Body Problem
The issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body.
Intentionality
The quality of being directed toward an object.
Unity
Resistance to division, or the ability to integrate information from all of the body’s senses into one coherent whole.
Selectivity
The capacity to include some objects but not others.
Cocktail-party Phenomenon
People tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby.
Transience
The tendency to change.
Minimal Consciousness
A low level of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior.
Full Consciousness
Know and are able to report your mental state.
Self-Consciousness
Distinct level of consciousness in which the person’s attention is drawn to the self as an object.
Mental Control
The attempt to change conscious states of mind.
Through Suppression
Conscience avoidance of a thought.
Rebound Effect of Thought Suppression
The tendency of a though to return to conciseness with greater frequency following suppression.
Ironic Process of Mental Control
Ironic errors occur because the mental process that monitors errors can itself produce them.