Final Exam - Section 4 (11/29/16) Flashcards
Consciousness - collection of processes including talking, _________, thinking, _________
- emotion
- seeing
Presence of only simple reflexes does not indicate _________
consciousness
No single brain structure is responsible for consciousness
_________ permits being awake but awake is not _________
- Reticular formation
- consciousness
consciousness - Involves connection and cognitive functions of all _________ areas
cortical
Response to visual stimuli can be _________ or _________
- conscious
- unconscious
-Consciousness -
_________ – swing at baseball before perception of ball (dorsal stream)
Unconscious
-Consciousness-
Unconscious – swing at baseball before perception of ball (_________ stream)
dorsal
-Consciousness-
_________ – aware that a bird just landed in a nearby tree (ventral stream)
Conscious
-Consciousness-
Conscious – aware that a bird just landed in a nearby tree (_________ stream)
ventral
-Consciousness-
Unconscious (_________ stream)
dorsal
-Consciousness-
Conscious (_________ stream)
ventral
Neural basis:
To be conscious of an object, need to have input from many systems
- Arousal – awake
- _________ – sensory input
- Attention – attend to specific object
- _________ memory
- Perception
- Working
Neural basis:
To be conscious of an object, need to have input from many systems
- _________ – awake
- Perception – sensory input
- _________ – attend to specific object
- Working memory
- Arousal
- Attention
Can detect _________ neural activity across neural networks when become _________ of an object
- synchronous
- conscious
Possible brain regions necessary for _________ :
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, medial frontal cortex,
posterior parietal
posterior cingulate
consciousness
_________ - Small thin layer possibly responsible for being conscious or not
Claustrum
-Consciousness -
_________ -
Has inputs from all cortical regions and output to all of these regions
Claustrum
-Consciousness-
Stimulation of _________ in one epileptic patient caused loss of consciousness
Claustrum
Stimulation of Claustrum in one epileptic patient caused loss of _________
consciousness
Stimuli that do not reach consciousness can elicit _________
emotions
Presentation of scrambled image to dominant eye and visible face to non-dominant eye (_________ )
intraocular suppression
during intraocular suppression test-
Face becomes invisible but STS and _________ react to fearful face
amygdala
-Consciousness -
Scientists propose two systems-
- Unconscious system that reacts _________ with no conscious thought
- Conscious system that responds _________ and takes into account relevant knowledge
- quickly
- slower
Drug addicts will often come up with explanations of behaviors that come from _________ system
unconscious
