Question | Answer |
Consciousness | One's subjective experience of the world, resulting from brain activity |
Dualism | The belief that the mind is physically distinct from the brain |
Automatic Tasks | They are so well learned that we do them without much attention, too much attention can interfere with these automatic behaviours |
Controlled Processing | It helps people perform in complex or novel situations, consciously paying attention and thinking |
The Cocktail Party Phenomenon | When hearing your name mentioned in another conversation can capture you attention |
Shadowing | When a participant is required to repeat or "shadow", only one message |
Change Blindness | A failure to notice large changes in one's environment |
Subliminal Perception | The processing of info by sensory systems without conscious awareness |
Freudian Slip | When an unconscious though is suddenly expressed at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate social context |
Global Workspace Model | Proposes that consciousness arises as a function of which brain circuits are active - Some people with brain injuries, are sometimes unaware of their deficits |
Persistent Vegetative State | A state which lasts over a month where patients have sleep/wake cycles, but they do not seem to respond to their surroundings |
Minimally Conscious State | People with brain injuries are able to make some deliberate movements such as following an object with their eyes |
Brain Death | Is the irreversible loss of brain |
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