Welcome to your Chapter 15 - Self Study Quiz
1. We can study consciousness from observable behaviors and capacities and come up with information-processing mechanisms. Which perspective is this approach from?
2. The knowledge argument was proposed to support the information-processing model of consciousness.
3. No information-processing activity can take place unconsciously.
4. In the priming experiment on categorization of tools and faces, why is the processing time for correctly classifying a congruent target less than for a non-congruent target?
5. In one disorder we have ability A functioning normally with B significantly impaired, while in a second disorder we have ability B functioning normally with A significantly impaired. What is this called?
6. What do patients with unilateral spatial neglect and blindsight have in common?
7. What’s the key difference between unilateral spatial neglect, blindsight patients and normal subjects?
8. According to Block, what do the priming experiments and the studies with unilateral spatial neglect and blindsight patients explain?
9. What is Dennett’s reply to Chalmer’s charge that the real question of consciousness is unanswerable by cognitive science?
10. According to global workspace theorists of consciousness, which of the following best describes the functions of consciousness?
11. According to the global workspace theorists, what admits information to the global workspace?
12. What’s the key difference between subjects who are primed to process information and subjects who are not?
