Deck 8: The Brain Is Conscious

Question 1

Conscious experiences can include which of the following:

A) Planning a task during the waking state
B) Dreaming during rapid eye movement REM) sleep
C) Voluntary control of attention
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to the theater analogy for the Global Workspace Theory proposed by Baars, the stage of the theater represents:

A) Voluntary attention
B) The contents of consciousness
C) Working memory
D) Unconscious processes

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is true of the description by Laureys 2005) of two separable aspects of consciousness in a healthy person:

A) Levels of awareness can vary but levels of attention remain constant
B) Levels of attention can vary but levels of wakefulness remain constant
C) Levels of awareness and levels of attention are always balanced across the three global states
D) Levels of attention and levels of wakefulness can vary across the three global states

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Are voluntary attention and consciousness the same processes or separable?

Question 5

According to the theater analogy for the Global Workspace Theory proposed by Baars, the spotlight on the stage of the theater represents:

A) Voluntary attention
B) The contents of consciousness
C) Working memory
D) Unconscious processes

Question 6

Three global brain states described are:

A) Waking, sleeping, and dreaming
B) Alert, drowsy, and sleepy
C) Conscious, unconscious, and dreaming
D) Voluntary, involuntary, and executive attention

Question 7

Which of the following are major functions of the conscious state?

A) Rapid adaption to new situations
B) Limited capacity for competing sensory information such as two people speaking to you at the same time
C) Voluntary decision making
D) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is the best example of the 'chattering' brain analogy?

A) Rhythmic activity across a large number of people such as football fans performing 'the wave' at a football game
B) Local synchrony such as a conversation between two individuals in a football arena combined with global randomness lack of global synchrony) as there are hundreds of such local conversations that are not linked to each other
C) Global synchrony such as all of the fans in a football arena cheering at the same time when a goal is scored
D) All of the above.

Question 9

Which of the following is true of executive control processes?

A) They occur during the waking state
B) They are mediated by the basal ganglia
C) They are generally nonconscious
D) All of the above

Question 10

An important aspect of the waking state is that:

A) Most tasks are consciously mediated, involving attention and working memory processes
B) Includes both conscious and unconscious processes
C) Has tasks with both reportable and non-reportable components
D) All of the above

Question 11

The key difference between voluntary 'top-down' attention and automatic 'bottom-up' attention is:

A) You can consciously control automatic attention but not voluntary attention
B) You can consciously control voluntary attention but not automatic attention
C) Both voluntary and automatic attention are controlled by executive processes
D) None of the above