Consciousness

Question 1

What are the limits with introspection in psychology experiments

Answer 1

Incomplete information, difficult to express in words, subjective experience, unconscious events that we are unaware of

Question 2

cognitive unconscious

Answer 2

the mental support processes outside out awareness that make our perception memory and thinking possible

Question 3

blindsight and what does it tell us

Answer 3

the abulity of a person who suffered a lesion in the visual cortex to reach toward or correctly guess about objects despite seeing nothing shows that there are mental processes that escape the consciousness

Question 4

beneficial to have unconscious control to be automatic

Answer 4

yes bc fast and effortless

Question 5

Does consciousness guarantee control

Answer 5

Nope just look at the amt of fried chicken bbt i eat and the time i wake up in the mornign

Question 6

What is the mind body problem

Answer 6

how the mind and body influence each toher, how can mental events trigger a physical event

Question 7

What are the two broad aspects of consciousness

Answer 7

1) level of alertness or sensitivity which is independent of what they are alert to(related to thalamus)
2) consciousness varies in content

Question 8

binocular rivalry and what does it show

Answer 8

even though the eyes are seeing the visual input there is an area of the brain that activates when the participant recognizes or is aware of the face while there is another area for the house
so it is not about direct input but also awareness of the input that matter here

Question 9

experiment about what free will is and whether we have it

Answer 9

Brain activity is present before the decision is seemingly made so it is not the decision that alters the brain activity but the reverse?

Question 10

Global workspace theory

Answer 10

wokspace neurons that connect one area to another has selective communication powers, and links together stimuli or ideas in dynamic representations to make consciousness

Question 11

What can the global workspace theory prove

Answer 11

1) working memory because it can explain how we can continue thinking about a stimulus even after the trigger is removed.
2) variations in consciousness like sleep vs awake

Question 12

what produces melatonin

Answer 12

pineal gland

Question 13

alpha waves

Answer 13

relaxed and awake waves between 8 and 12 pulses per seconf

Question 14

beta waves

Answer 14

active thinking waves

Question 15

delta waves

Answer 15

stage 3 and stage 4 waves 4 waves per sec

Question 16

paradoxical sleep

Answer 16

REM sleep

Question 17

activation synthesis hypothesis

Answer 17

dreams may be a by product of the brain’s activities to be assembled into a narrative

Question 18

PGO waves

Answer 18

pons, geniculate and occipital areas