Consciousness Test Review

A CONCEPT WITH MANY MEANINGS, INCLUDING SENSORY AWARENESS OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE, DIRECT INNER AWARENESS OF ONE’S OWN THOUGHTS & FEELINGS, PERSONAL UNITY & THE WAKING STATE.

• Awareness
• Perception
• Cognition
• Consciousness

Which of the following are ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS?

• sleeping

• meditation

• hypnosis

• psychoactive drug use

Focusing one's consciousness on a particular stimuli is called

• inattention
• distraction
• selective attention

• ignorance

WHICH TYPES OF STIMULI TEND TO CAPTURE OUR ATTENTION EASILY?

• stimuli that has suddenly changed

• novel stimuli

• intense stimuli

• repetitive stimuli

knowledge of one's own thoughts, feelings, and memories without the use of sensory organs.

• extrospection
• retrospection
• outrospection
• direct inner awareness

PRECONSCIOUS material is not currently in your minds awareness but is readily available.

• TRUE

• FALSE

UNCONSCIOUS material is unavailable to awareness under any circumstances.

• TRUE

• FALSE

NONCONSCIOUS things are ones that are happening in your body, but you cannot sense. An example is

• feeling jealous

• breathing

• the firing of neurons in your brain

• remembering a smell but not knowing from where

REPRESSION is when your mind automatically ejects unwanted experiences from your consciousness while SUPPRESSION is when you actively try to stop thinking about those unwanted experiences.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The only definition of being CONSCIOUS is being awake.

• TRUE

• FALSE