Consciousness

Question 1

define consciousness

Answer 1

The state or quality of awareness. of our emotions memories and thoughts

Question 2

The state of awareness creates….

Answer 2

A subjective experience.

Question 3

Where do neuroscientists believe consciousness and the mind lie

Answer 3

In the neural process in the brain

Question 4

Why do neuroscientists believe that consciousness lies in the brain

Answer 4

Because if a person has a neural disorder it affects their subjective experience

Question 5

what is frontal lobotomy

Answer 5

A surgical treatment used in the 1940s that involved distroying the frontal lobe of the brain

Question 6

What was frontal lobotomy used to cure

Answer 6

Psychosis, depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses

Question 7

what happens in the brain that results in an epileptic seizure

Answer 7

Both sides of the brain fire wildly due to an imbalance of excitory and inhibitory neurona

Question 8

What surgical precedure was used to cure epileptic seizures

Answer 8

split brain operation

Question 9

what was involved in the split brain treatment

Answer 9

the cutting of the corpus collosum. which were the fibres that held to two cerebaral cortexes together.

Question 10

The functions of our cerebral hemispheres

Answer 10

processing sensory information

regulating and controlling movement

Question 11

what does the left cerebral hemisphere control

Answer 11

Controls movement in the right of our bodies
sensory information in the
right of body

Question 12

what does the right cerebral hemisphere control

Answer 12

Controls movement in the left of our bodies
sensory information in the
left of body

Question 13

What was the hypothesis or reasoning behind the split brain operation

Answer 13

Cutting the connecion between the left and right hemispheres will not allow runaway neurons to excite the other side of the brain

Question 14

What does the corpus callosum do?

Answer 14

Connects the two hemispheres so they can share information so each side knows what the other is doing

Question 15

after the split brain operatoon can the two hemispheres communicate with other parts of the brain

Answer 15

Yes, parts in their hemisphere and down the midbrain, hindbrain and spinal cord

Question 16

how is movement in a person with a split brain coordinates

Answer 16

Parts of the lower brain do this by integrating information from the two hemispheres

Question 17

why did scientists in the past conclude that the corpus callosum is not important

Answer 17

Because after examining split brain patients with test they found that all pschycological aspects were okay. Memory, IQ and motor skills.

Question 18

Split brain patients reported that

Answer 18

They felt fine and that the frequency of seizures had reduced.
Afew however reported that their hand sometimes seemed to have a mind of its own and would actively worl against the task the patient was trying to accomplish

Question 19

in split brain patients the parts controlled by the right hemisphere worked with the persons conscious intentions

Answer 19

false

Question 20

The conflicts between the two hands in split brain patients last forever

Answer 20

No after a while they abated

Question 21

what happened when a split brain patient touched an unknown object the could’t see with their left hand

Answer 21

They could not identify it verbally

Question 22

When split-brain patients are shown an image only in their left visual field (left peripheral vision)

Answer 22

they could not identify if verbally

Question 23

Where is human language and the ability to talk and write localized in the brain

Answer 23

in the left hemisphere

Question 24

what happened when split brain patients were asked to explain an action done by their left hand

Answer 24

they made stories to explain them

Question 25

what does the gazzaniga’s interpreter theory say

Answer 25

it aims to explain why people have a unified sense of self.
it says the brain makes narratives that make sense of the world
free will is an illusion and consciousness is just story telling

Question 26

what was the basis for how things worked before the scientific revolution

Answer 26

purely based on intuition and deductive logic

Question 27

mind body dualism by Rene Descartes

Answer 27

The body and the mind are two separate entities.

Question 28

Kantian philosophy

Answer 28

consciousness can change natural laws