Cog Psych Final Exam

Awareness

Wakefulness

Introspection

Thinking about and reporting on such conscious experiences

The Hard Problem

To ultimately understand how we become aware of our inner states and how consciousness emerges from a physical system like the human brain

Perturbation Complexity Index (PCI)

higher PCI leads to more complexity in brain

Altered States of Consciousness…

raise PCI

Access consciousness

Phenomenal consciousness

Stimulus-independent thought

metacognition

Empathy

Inferences (in regards to social processing)

Mentalizing

False belief

Emotions

Motivation

Expressions

Emotional regulation strategies

Utilization behavior

Dysexecutive syndrome

fluid intelligence

Crystallized intelligence

Prospective memory

Delayed intentions

Hippocampus

recall tasks

recognition tasks

encoding specificity

anterograde amnesia

retrograde amnesia

broca’s aphasia

wernicke’s aphasia

amusia

Auditory constancy

cochlea

cocktail party effect

Attention

Bottom up processing

top down processing

vigilance

covert orienting

overt orienting

exogenous attention

endogenous attention

change blindness

inattentional blindness

dorsal stream

ventral stream

FIT theory of attention

premotor theory of attention