Unit 6: Consciousness

the awareness of things that are both inside and outside of ourselves

• consciousness

• selective attention

• preconscious

• unconscious

Your ability to pick out a single person's voice in a crowded room is an example of

• consciousness

• selective attention

• absolute threshold

• streaming

Why did William James at first think psychologists should not study consciousness?

• it is hard to measure and observe

• its easy to measure

• it was not important to the study of the mind

• he believed it didn't exist

Many psychologists believe consciousness can be scientifically studied by linking it with...

• math and statistics

• observable and measurable behaviors

• eating disorders

• scientific inquiry

When something is considered a psychological construct, that means it...

• can be easily measured

• cannot be seen, touched, or measured directly

• is observable

• can only be measured using neuroimaging

Being aware of all the sensations around you is a state of consciousness referred to as

• sensory awareness

• inner awareness

• sense of self

• preconscious level

Which would be an example of direct inner awareness?

• the memory of a fight with your best friend

• the loud noises during a party

• understand that you are your own person

• the feeling of a breeze coming through the car window

Which is an example of a child who has not fully developed a sense of self?

• They refer to themselves in the 3rd person "Ashley wants to go to the park."

• They refer to themselves in the 1st person "I want to go to the park."

• They cannot remember a friend they had when they were younger.

• They are not able to sense their environment

Which level of consciousness involves ideas that are not in your awareness now, but you could recall them?

• preconscious

• unconscious

• sensory awareness

• conscious

Which level of consciousness refers to information hidden from the conscious mind?

• preconscious

• unconscious/ subconscious

• nonconscious

• inner awareness