Week 8 Ch.5 Consciousness

Question 1

phenomenology

Answer 1

how things seem to the conscious person

Question 2

Problem of other minds

Answer 2

the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. How do you know that anyone else is conscious?

Question 3

experience

Answer 3

People judge minds according to the capacity for such as the ability to feel pain, pleasure, hunger, consciousness, anger, or fear

Question 4

agency

Answer 4

People judge minds according to the capacity for such as the ability for self-control, planning, memory, or thought

Question 5

The properties of consciousness are

Answer 5

-unity:
-selectivity:
-transcience
-uniqueness:
-intentionality:

Question 6

Minimal consciousness

Answer 6

A low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behaviour

Question 7

Full consciousness

Answer 7

A level of consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state.

Question 8

Self-consciousness

Answer 8

A distinct level of consciousness in which the person’s attention is drawn to the self as an object

Question 9

Electroencephalograph (EEG

Answer 9

the consciousness meter, a non-invasive procedure that records the electrical activity of neurons on the surplus or cerebral cortex of the brain

Question 10

The 4 different brain wave patterns

Answer 10

Beta waves: awake and alert, intense focused thinking

alpha waves: awake and relaxed, they are a relaxed state awake but relaxed

Theta waves: are for falling asleep

Delta: are the slowest waves for deep sleep

Question 11

Circadian rhythm

Answer 11

Is the daily cycle of 24hrs and it is the cycle all of our systems follow

Question 12

Zeitgebers

Answer 12

(time givers in german)
Are external cues that synchronize internal clock to sloalr time when the light level increases our body becomes alert when the light levels go down the blood pressure slows melatonin releases

Question 13

Clock genes

Answer 13

The circadian rhythm is genetically predetermined Scn or the master clock

Question 14

A sleep study generally involves

Answer 14

Electroencephalograph (EEG) – brain activity
Electrooculograph (EOG) – eye movements
Electromyograph (EMG) – muscle tension

Question 15

Neural plasticity

Answer 15

is sorting out which neural connection should be pruned out and what memories should stay, deep sleep is like a housecleaning stage

Question 16

Night terrors

Answer 16

are not connected to dreaming people dont experience reporting them it a disruption of sleep is an anxiety reaction

Question 17

Rem sleep

Answer 17

rapid eye movement
-vivid dreaming
-EEG beta waves
-Increased hr and arousal
-Immobilized muscles
-Memory consolidation, emotion processing
-20% of total sleep

Question 18

Unlike in rem sleep, what part of the brain is activated in lucid dreaming?

Answer 18

the prefrontal cortex because of that decision-making center

Question 19

theories of the Functions of sleep

Answer 19

Preserve and protect
It preserves energy and resources

Restore and repair
Repairs wear and tear on the body and restore energy

Learning and memory consolidation
Solidifies memory and learning

Question 20

Freud’s wish fulfillment theory

Answer 20

They reflect symbolic wish fulfillment a window into the unconscious mind a repository of suppressed urges and desirable, like sexual or aggressive

Question 21

Activation-synthesis theory

Answer 21

the brain created order out of chaos making meaning or stories out of incoherent random bursts

Question 22

Problem-solving theory

Answer 22

it’s the balance between Freud and synthesis theory,
-your brain sorting out the problems of the day and the dream is how we interpret it but it’s not often the rationale