PSY 201 - midterm 2 || Questions and 100% Accurate Answers.

Consciousness correct answers Moment-by-moment subjective experiences Necker cube correct answers What is this figure called? Mirror test correct answers Method of testing for self-awareness in which researchers put a mark on an animal's face while the animal is sleeping, then put them in front of a mirror to see if they try to take it off themselves. Persistent vegetative state correct answers Full coma that lasts more than 1 month Death correct answers Pronounced when there is NO sign of brain activity, rather than when the heart stops Minimally conscious state correct answers Deliberate movement and communication are possible in this state Lock-in syndrome correct answers State of full consciousness but no way of communicating Neuroimaging correct answers A method that may help differentiate conscious patients in apparent comas Asleep correct answers *i>Clicker* When a perceptual wall between the conscious mind and the outside world emerges, and we are in a state that is immediately reversible, we are: Sleep/wake cycle, daydreaming, automatic tasks, selective attention correct answers Natural variations in consciousness level Selectivity correct answers *Aspect of attention* only aware of a subject of stimuli Capacity limitation correct answers *Aspect of attention* limited ability to handle information Sustained mental effort correct answers *Aspect of attention* limited ability to engage in various activities Shadowing correct answers Method of listening study developed by psychologist E. C. Cherry in which the participant wore headphones with a different conversation playing in each ear and told to repeat everything in one conversation. Filter theory correct answers Theory developed by psychologist Donald Broadbent which assumed that people have limited capacity for sensory information. Incoming information is screened to let in only the most important material, like a gate that opens and closes.