Vocabulary
The description and explanation of states of consciousness
Psychology
A person's level of wakefulness or alertness
All of the cognitive processes that support ordinary perception, memory, and thinking without conscious awareness or attention
Cognitive Unconscious
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Three
The description and explanation of states of consciousness
Psychology (William James)
Monitoring ourselves and our external environment
Awareness
People can hold only so many things in their awareness at any given time, so they tend to prioritize their awareness to whatever is relevant to their goals, to the exclusion of everything else.
Selective Attention
Consciously accessible thoughts, feelings and memories
What genre of music has been shown to help plants grow better and faster?
Classical
Two aspects of consciousness:
1. monitoring ourselves and our external environment (awareness) 2. controlling ourselves (starting and stopping behavior based on our plans and goals)
Starting and stopping behavior based on our plans and goals
Controlling ourselves
We experience _______ __________ because our awareness is limited and we cannot attend to every detail of an event or scene.
Change blindness
Focus of current awareness
Conscious
True or False: Pain tolerance is reduced by sleep deprivation?
True
True or False: Multitaskers do better at task switching
Our awareness of both the external world—the events taking place around us—and the internal world, including awareness of ourselves and our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Consciousness
The ability to perform even complex activities, like driving a car, brushing teeth, or typing out a text message, with minimal conscious awareness
Automaticity
Inaccessible memories, instincts and desires
Dynamic unconscious
__________ deprivation will kill you more quickly than food deprivation.
Sleep
When we think we're multitasking, we're actually __________ ________ _____ ________ really quickly.
switching between two tasks
To observe their own conscious experience and try to describe it
Introspection
Which is an example of perceptual decoupling?
a) looking at the time on your watch or phone, then immediately forgetting what you saw
b) being so focused on a task that other stimuli in the environment are ignored
c) taking a break from a hard problem to let inspiration strike
d) thinking about something someone said at work while driving home
thinking about something someone said at work while driving home
Under the modern scientific view, which best describes the cognitive unconscious?
a) a separate “self” that sometimes acts at odds with our stated intentions
b) all of the cognitive processes that occur outside of conscious awareness
c) those parts of the mind that are only active when we are asleep or “knocked out”
d) a part of the mind reserved for cognition that does not process emotion
b) all of the cognitive processes that occur outside of conscious awareness
What were the teams and the score of the last Super Bowl?
The Chiefs beat the Eagles 38 to 35
What are some issues with driving and using your phone? Name 3 and why they are important to understand!
Many answers!