Psych Unit 1 Formative Assessment, 2025-26

What is the term for our personal awareness of both ourselves and what is around us?

• Perception

• Consciousness

• Sensation

• Cognition

Consciousness refers to:

• The process of sensing stimuli through the sensory organs

• The brain’s ability to store and retrieve long-term memories

• Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

• A system of automatic responses to internal thoughts

Which of the following best defines consciousness?

• Our stored knowledge about the physical world

• The neural patterns involved in motor responses

• Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

• The ability to communicate emotions through body language

Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment is called:

• Sensory adaptation

• Memory consolidation

• Consciousness

• Circadian rhythm

Which of the following is most similar in meaning to “consciousness”?

• Knowing you are angry while sitting in a loud room

• Processing colors through the occipital lobe

• Reflexively blinking when something nears your eyes

• Remembering a list of groceries

What term is described by “our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment”?

• Circadian rhythm

• Dreaming

• Consciousness

• Perceptual set

A study finds that participants under general anesthesia show no signs of awareness or environmental perception. Which psychological concept has temporarily decreased?

• Intelligence

• Perception

• Consciousness

• Learning

During meditation, a person reports being fully aware of their thoughts and body position. Which psychological concept does this experience best represent?

• Learning

• Emotion regulation

• Consciousness

• Implicit memory

A patient emerges from a coma and begins responding to their surroundings and recognizing loved ones. What has returned for this patient?

• Sensation

• Consciousness

• Classical conditioning

• Emotional intelligence

In a sleep study, participants report different levels of mental alertness across stages of sleep. This variation reflects changes in what?

• Sensory thresholds

• Consciousness

• Memory encoding

• Selective attention