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Question 1:

What type of perception occurs when an observer is unaware of perceiving a stimulus, despite that stimulus having an effect on his or her behaviour?
a) Subliminal
b) Supraliminal
c) Pre-attentive
d) Heightened

Question 2:

Which of the following designs is intended to show that perception without awareness is a real phenomenon?
a) Perceptual completion
b) Probe-caught method
c) Binocular rivalry
d) Dissociation paradigm

Question 3:

The subjective sense of time is referred to as ______.
a) implicit time perception (ITP)
b) mental chronometry
c) chronesthesia
d) mind-wandering

Question 4:

Semantic memory can be described as falling under ______ consciousness.
a) autonoetic
b) noetic
c) anoetic
d) meta-consciousness

Question 5:

The subjective experience of filling-in is also known as ______.
a) blink suppression
b) saccadic suppression
c) grand illusion of conscious perception
d) perceptual completion

Question 6:

The grand illusion of perceptions is created in part by ______.
a) feedforward pathways
b) feedback pathways
c) feedforward and feedback pathways
d) none of the above

Question 7:

To Schooler, temporal dissociations occur between ______.
a) non-consciousness and consciousness
b) non-consciousness and meta-consciousness
c) meta-consciousness and consciousness
d) self-caught method and probe-caught method

Question 8:

Eye movements can be monitored with ______, and muscle activity can be monitored with ______.
a) EMG; EOG
b) EOG; EMG
c) EEG; EMG
d) EMG; EEG

Question 9:

The difference between regular dreaming and lucid dreaming is said to distinguish ______.
a) non-consciousness and consciousness
b) non-consciousness and meta-consciousness
c) meta-consciousness and consciousness
d) REM and non-REM sleep stages

Question 10:

According to the panpsychism view, which of the following would NOT have consciousness?
a) A human
b) A non-human animal
c) A rock
d) They all would have some level of consciousness.

Question 11:

Which brain areas are active when the conscious experience switches in binocular rivalry situations?
a) Visual and temporal cortices
b) Visual and prefrontal cortices
c) Prefrontal and temporal cortices
d) Prefrontal and parietal cortices

Question 12:

What does the theory of microconsciousness propose?
a) There is a single unified consciousness.
b) There is a single unified visual consciousness.
c) There are many different visual consciousnesses.
d) There are three levels of consciousness.

Question 13:

Based on electroencephalogram recordings, the gamma frequency is known to be ______ cycles per second.
a) 4
b) 40
c) 400
d) 4000

Question 14:

In which disorder does the individual perceive only half of their whole visual field?
a) Visual hemispatial neglect
b) Split-brain
c) Blindsight
d) Epilepsy

Question 15:

In the majority of patients that have had an amputation of a limb, phantom limb pain can be felt for as long as ______.
a) 1 year
b) 5 years
c) 15 years
d) 25 years

Question 16:

What were Owen et al. (2006) able to demonstrate through the use of fMRI in a patient with locked-in syndrome?
a) The same pattern of brain activity occurred when compared to conscious control participants.
b) A weaker pattern of brain activity occurred when compared to conscious control participants.
c) A pattern of brain activity occurred that was in different brain areas than in the conscious control participants.
d) No brain activity occurred as would be expected of a patient in a vegetative state.

Question 17:

The former practice of prefrontal leucotomy is used as evidence to support the relation between the frontal lobe of the brain and ______.
a) blindsight
b) epilepsy
c) anoetic awareness
d) autonoetic awareness

Question 18:

Evidence from studies using the binocular rivalry technique and the flash suppression technique has indicated that neurons in the ______ lobe are involved in conscious perception.
a) frontal
b) temporal
c) parietal
d) occipital

Question 19:

What is severed in split-brain patients?
a) The right hemisphere
b) The left hemisphere
c) The corpus callosum
d) The homunculus

Question 20:

Schooler’s conceptualization of consciousness would best match up with which of Tulving’s memory systems?
a) Episodic
b) Semantic
c) Implicit
d) Procedural

True or False Questions

Question 21:

Information presented below threshold for reporting the occurrence of an event can influence our behaviour.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

We accurately perceive our environments, making it very difficult for large changes to go unnoticed.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

The underlying reason that we do not see objects in our blind spot is because this is the part of the eye that does not contain any photoreceptors.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Our body schema is said to be fixed and unchangeable.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

In split-brain patients, each hemisphere is conscious of the meaning of a word in the opposite hemisphere.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

Severing the corpus callosum is a way to control epileptic seizures.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

According to panpsychism, only humans have consciousness.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

Hard problems of consciousness can be tackled with modern neuroimaging methods.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

We need to be consciously aware in order for encoding to take place.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

Blindsight patients claim not to see but can act on objects in their blind visual field.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Sixth Edition: Chapter 13