Consciousness

Question 1

consciousness

Answer 1

one’s subjective experience of the world, resulting from brain activity

Question 2

automatic tasks

Answer 2

tasks that are so well learned that we do them without much conscious effort

Question 3

controlled processing

Answer 3

the more time consuming mental processing used when learning new tasks

Question 4

persistent vegetative state

Answer 4

when a person goes through sleep/wake cycles, but do not seem to respond to their surroundings for more than a month

Question 5

minimally conscious state

Answer 5

when a person is able to make deliberate movements and may attempt to communicate but have not reached full consciousness

Question 6

global workspace model

Answer 6

the theory that consciousness arises as a function of which brain circuits are active

Question 7

split brain

Answer 7

a condition in which the corpus callosum is surgically cut and the two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other

Question 8

interpreter

Answer 8

a team specific to the left hemisphere; refers to the left hemispheres’s attempts to make sense of actions and ongoing events

Question 9

subliminal perception

Answer 9

the processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness

Question 10

Freudian slip

Answer 10

an unconscious thought suddenly expressed at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate social context

Question 11

circadian rhythms

Answer 11

the regulation of biological cycles into regular patterns

Question 12

suprachiasmatic nucleus

Answer 12

the small region of the hypothalamus that processes information about light detected by the eyes

Question 13

melatonin

Answer 13

a hormone that ravels through the blood stream that affects various receptors in the body, including the brain