consciousness

Question 1

Altered states of consciousness

Answer 1

Sleep and dreams, psychoactive drugs, meditation and hypnosis

Question 2

Chalmers (1994)

The Hard Problem

Answer 2

To explain how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience

Question 3

Monitoring consciousness

Answer 3

Attention - you experience what you attend to actively

Intentional blindness - you are blind to what you are unaware of

Question 4

Controlling consciousness

Answer 4

plan and initiate actions choosing between alternative possibilities

Question 5

Conscious vs Unconscious

Answer 5

1. Always unconsciousness (Visuomotor control)
2. Normally unconscious but can be brought under conscious control (breathing)
3. Actions learned consciously but become unconscious (playing piano)
4. Actions once learned can be conscious or unconscious (driving)
5. Always done consciously (recalling a phone number)

Question 6

Psychoactive drugs

Answer 6

Classified by behavioural effect - sedatives & hypnotics, stimulants, opiates, hallucinogens and psychedelics

Question 7

Mediation

Answer 7

Concentrative/one point meditation - diminish sensory input,
Open meditation - aware of everything around however not met with response

Question 8

Hypnosis (Definition)

Answer 8

Kilstrom Interaction whereby an individual responds to suggestions offered by another. Involves alterations in perception, memory and voluntary action.
Either: 1) Altered consciousness - 40%, show a divided stream of consciousness, OR
2) A period of focussed attention, exist in state of suggestibility (60%)