CHAPTER 6

Question 1

the awareness of one’s surroundings and of what is in one’s mind at a given moment.

Answer 1

consciousness

Question 2

being aware and awake

Answer 2

consciousness

Question 3

consciousness is a place where we temporarily attend to information at hand or deemed important. It is the place where the spotlight of attention lands on the contents of our minds—that illuminated place is where for the moment you can know what you are working with, feeling, and thinking.

Answer 3

global workspace theory

Question 4

Conscious awareness occurs when neurons from many distinct brain regions work together—a process referred to as —————-.

Answer 4

synchronization

Question 5

Cleeremans’s (2011) ——————- theory explains consciousness as a skill the brain acquires, not as a inherent property of the brain or a skill controlled by particular brain region

Answer 5

radical plasticity

Question 6

TWO DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS:

Answer 6

Wakefulness
Awareness

Question 7

refers to alertness, or the extent to which a person is awake or asleep

Answer 7

Wakefulness

Question 8

refers to the monitoring of information from the environment and from one’s own thoughts (Brown & Ryan, 2003)

Answer 8

Awareness

Question 9

A state of consciousness in which the eyes are closed and the person is unresponsive and unarousable.

problem with the reticular activating system in the brain.

Answer 9

coma

Question 10

A state of minimal consciousness in which the eyes might be open, but the person is otherwise unresponsive.

wakefulness without awareness

Answer 10

vegetative state

Question 11

preconscious
Freud used the term to describe material that is potentially accessible but not currently available to awareness.

tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

When we sleep and dream, we are moderately conscious.

Answer 11

preconscious

Question 12

exists when we thrive in our ability to rise to the occasion of challenging tasks.

Answer 12

flow

Question 13

A heightened awareness of the present moment, whether of events in one’s environment or in one’s own mind.

Answer 13

mindfulness

Question 14

following are the three attentional processes that help determine the contents of consciousness at any given moment:

Answer 14

selective attention

sustained attention

shifting of attention through multitasking

Question 15

The ability to filter out auditory stimuli and then to refocus attention when you hear your name.

Answer 15

Cocktail Party Effect

Question 16

When you are too focused with something that you ignored everything else

Answer 16

Inattentional blindness

Question 17

We do not notice potential distracters when a primary task consumes all of our attentional capacity

Answer 17

Perceptual load model

Question 18

The ability to maintain focused awareness on a target or an idea.

Answer 18

SUSTAINED ATTENTION