Module 7: Basic Consciousness Concepts

Question 1

consciousness

Answer 1

awareness of self and environment

Question 2

cognitive neuroscience

Answer 2

Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)

Question 3

examples of some states occur spontaneously

Answer 3

daydreaming, drowsiness, dreaming

Question 4

examples of some are physiologically induced

Answer 4

hallucinations, orgasm, food/oxygen starvation

Question 5

examples of some are psychologically induced

Answer 5

sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation

Question 6

selective attention

Answer 6

focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

Question 7

inattentional blindness

Answer 7

failure to see visible objects when attention is directed elsewhere

Question 8

change blindness

Answer 8

failure to notice changes in the environment, a form of inattentional blindness

Question 9

dual processing

Answer 9

information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) tracks.

Question 10

blindsight awareness

Answer 10

a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.

Question 11

parallel processing

Answer 11

processing many aspects of a problem
simultaneously; the brain’s natural mode of
information processing for many functions

Question 12

sequential processing

Answer 12

focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, generally used to process new information or to solve difficult problems.