Consciousness

THIS THEORY MEASURES TO WHAT DEGREE SOMETHING IS CONSCIOUS

• INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS THEORY

• GLOBAL WORKSPACE THEORY

• CONSPIRACY THEORY

• CONSCIOUSNESS THEORY

Consciousness is

• individual and continuously changing.

• stored in an individual’s long-term memory.

• directly observed through the behaviours of individuals.

• objective and can be measured directly using tools

James can sing along to music on the radio while driving his car and efficiently navigate to his friend’s house at the same time. This illustrates a feature of consciousness involving

• concentration

• selective attention

• divided attention

• controlled processing

Ollie has a very high fever after contracting a virus. While lying awake in bed, he begins to feel as though ants are crawling all over his body, and says he can see them, despite there being no ants. Ollie is most likely experiencing ________ with ________

• normal waking consciousness; self-control

• normal waking consciousness; divided attention

• an altered state of consciousness; perceptual distortions

• an altered state; inappropriate emotions

our awareness of ourselves and our environment.

• interaction

• conscoiusness

• sensation

• perception

Periodic natural loss of consciousness -as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma or hibernation...

• sleep 

• REM rebound

• NREM sleep

• dream

Which of the following sequences best illustrates the consciousness continuum from most aware to least aware?

• coma, asleep, drowsy, answering an exam question

• answering an exam question, asleep, drowsy, coma

• coma, asleep, answering an exam question, drowsy

• answering an exam question, drowsy, asleep, coma

Why is consciousness considered to be a psychological construct.

• It is of a high awareness concept of ideas

• It is objective, directly measured through brain activity

• it is subjective, we cannot directly observe or measure it

• It is of states of an psychological mind that we can feel from others

What is our consciousness?

• our experience of the world

• our experience of processing information

• our experience of thoughts

• our experience of emotions

Your awareness of everything that is going on around you and inside your own head at any given movement, which you use to organize your behavior.

• Consciousness

• Circadian Rhythm

• Insomnia

• Hypnosis