Mind and Consciousness
The capacity to feel and perceive and to have subjective experiences, such as the experience of seeing the color red.
What is sentience?
In 1868, this researcher used reaction time experiments to infer mental processes from observable behavior.
Who is Donders?
The lobe located at the back of the brain that contains the primary visual area.
What is the occipital lobe?
The physical pattern of energy reaching sensory receptors, such as light reflected from a stop sign.
What is a proximal stimulus?
Processing that begins with sensory receptors and moves toward increasingly specialized brain areas.
What is bottom-up processing?
The ability involving reasoning, creativity, self-awareness/introspection, and intentionality.
What is sapience?
This psychologist founded the first psychology laboratory in 1879 and studied consciousness through introspection.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This limbic structure is important for encoding certain explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
These retinal photoreceptors are important for color and visual detail.
What are cones?
The pathway that helps with spatial information and perception for action.
What are the parietal regions / dorsal pathway?
This combines sentience and sapience and refers to awareness of internal and external existence.
What is consciousness?
This researcher developed the savings method to study forgetting and memory.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
This brain region is involved in concentration, planning, judgment, creativity, inhibition, and other higher mental functions.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Identifying edges, determining figure-ground relationships, grouping regions, and filling in missing sections are all aspects of this.
What is perceptual organization?
This sensory system helps maintain balance, spatial orientation, and coordination of movement.
What is the vestibular system?
The philosophical position favored by modern science in which conscious experience is determined by the physical world and mind and body are ultimately the same thing.
What is monism?
This approach argued that psychology should study observable behavior rather than the unobservable mind.
What is behaviorism?
This network controls the ability to voluntarily choose and maintain your focus on specific things in your environment based largely on top-down processing and spatial locations.
What is the dorsal attention network?
The sense of knowing where your body and limbs are in space.
What is proprioception?
The total sensory experience of ingesting something, including taste, smell, intensity, pleasantness, memories, hunger, and attitudes.
What is flavor?
The problem of explaining our ability to discriminate, integrate information, report mental states, and focus attention.
What is the easy problem of consciousness?
This researcher challenged behaviorism by showing that rats could develop cognitive maps of mazes.
Who is Edward Tolman?
The area involved in comprehension of spoken and written language.
What is Wernicke's area?
Name the five basic tastes discussed in class.
What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami?
The sense elicited by non-painful stimuli placed against the skin.
What is tactile sensation