illusions and consciousness

Question 1

what is consciousness?

Answer 1

our moment to moment awareness of ourselves and the environment

Question 2

what are the four characteristics of conscious?

Answer 2

subjective
private
self-reflective
dynamic

Question 3

what is subjective conscious?

Answer 3

personal to you

Question 4

what is private conscious?

Answer 4

others cannot ever directly or completely access your reality/conscious experience

Question 5

what is self-reflective conscious?

Answer 5

mind is aware of own consciousness

Question 6

what is dynamic conscious?

Answer 6

state of consciousness is frequently shifting and changing

Question 7

what are states of consciousness?

Answer 7

a particular pattern of subjective experiences, or way of experiencing internal and external events

Question 8

what is an altered state of conscious?

Answer 8

variation from our normal waking state

Question 9

what are things that can induce an altered conscious state?

Answer 9

meditation or patterns of breathing

Question 10

the psychodynamic view of conscious distinguishes between what three levels?

Answer 10

conscious, preconscious and unconscious

Question 11

what is the conscious according to frued?

Answer 11

mental events we are currently aware of

Question 12

what is the preconscious according to frued?

Answer 12

outside of current awareness but can be easily recalled

Question 13

what is the unconscious according to frued?

Answer 13

not typically brought into conscious awareness

Question 14

events and emotions we were experiencing in what level of consciousness were things we needed to treat?

Answer 14

unconscious

Question 15

what did the iceberg analogy hypothesize?

Answer 15

that there was a lot going on in your system that is below the surface in the unconscious

Question 16

what is subliminal perception?

Answer 16

below the threshold for conscious perception

Question 17

what is the insular cortex?

Answer 17

the processing of both interpersonal (emotional: perceive someone as warm and friendly) and physical warmth

Question 18

cognitive theories about conscious can be broken down into what to processes?

Answer 18

controlled and automatic

Question 19

what happens in controlled processing?

Answer 19

no prior knowledge on the subject, focused attention
effortful, voluntary use of attention
typically required for novel or difficult tasks
slow but flexible
not typically as good as controlled processing as long as nothing ‘new’ happens

Question 20

what happens in automatic processing?

Answer 20

little to no conscious processing required
fast but not particularly flexible if something unexpected happened
facilitates divided attention

Question 21

do cognitive processes have dual modes?

Answer 21

yes!

Question 22

what is divided attention?

Answer 22

simultaneous processing of information associated with engaging in multiple tasks

Question 23

what are the advantages of divided attention?

Answer 23

adaptive, good for predictable, highly practiced tasks

Question 24

what are the disadvantages of divided attention?

Answer 24

less effective if tasks require similar resources or are difficult, can impact other actions

Question 25

what is the modular mind view>

Answer 25

the mind consists of separate but interacting information processing modules (perception, memory, emotion)

Question 26

what is visual agnosia?

Answer 26

an inability to visually identify objects
(through other senses, they can recognize an object, but when it comes to just vision, they cannot identify the object)

Question 27

what is simultagnosia?

Answer 27

inability to perceive more than one object at once
(they can only attend to what they are directly looking at; smaller pieces of a whole picture)

Question 28

what is blindsight?

Answer 28

eporting not being able to see visual stimuli, though responding in ways that they indicate some levels of awareness
(no conscious awareness)