Name: Class: PSYC 100 Date: 10/04/2022

In: consciousnessassignment.ws

There are two videos from the Zimbardo series in this assignment: the mind awake and asleep
and the divided mind

Please go to this site:

https://www.learner.org/series/discovering-psychology/the-mind-awake-and-asleep/

to view: The brain awake and asleep

This critical thinking and writing assignment is designed to present questions that stimulate
thinking towards primarily but not limited to topics contained in Chapter 06-11 and the
accompanying video lectures and the “help videos” included in your modules.

As such: answers should reflect integration across these information sources.

Please review and apply critical thinking cognitive skills towards these questions.

Please use information from chapter 6 and the other chapters in the text as assessed by
multiple-choice quizzes, the video-lectures viewed that support those experiences with the text,
and relevant work from previous critical thinking assignments concerned with various videos
concerned with concepts discussed within the text and lectures

To provide content that expresses understanding of these questions

No answer requires more than a few words or a short sentence

Answers should reflect integration of information from the above sources into a coherent
statement of understanding of the questions

Attend to logic of sentences and short answer structure

Review and assess the certainty that each answer contains all information expressing
understanding of the question

Please do not remove questions

Please skip a line between the question and your answer

Please submit this assignment on CANVAS only

NO late work

Allow 4 days for review of this submission

This assignment is worth 40 points

1. These external factors (independent variables) described in the video were suggested to
trigger biological states of activity and rest (dependent variables):
 - Sun setting and rising
- Lunar month
- The seasons

2. The operationalized and interrogated concept of the mental process of consciousness as

studied using methods developed in the biological, cognitive and developmental
perspectives and described in the video enables approach and withdraw behaviors
executed towards a particular event in the following way:

How well we are able to interact with the world depends on our human consciousness
and our knowledge of the world and of ourselves. As a result of these perceptions, we
return to a state of being completely awake and dreaming.

3. The operationalized and interrogated concept of the mental process of consciousness as

studied using methods developed in the biological, cognitive and developmental
perspectives and described in the video is contained by what hypothesized area of the
brain to solve what specific problem described in the video:

The mind creates a set of functional environmental instructions. We can utilize the
instructions to guide our behavior in flexible ways toward predetermined goals by using
our consciousness.

4. According to information in the video consistent with text and lecture, these aspects of
reality are processed by these processes in the brain prior to consciously experiencing
those aspects as reality:

Non-conscious lower-level processing of sensory data involves determining the size and
distance of things, identifying patterns, detecting certain stages, etc.

5. According to information in the video consistent with text and lecture, this memory
(storage) system contains information concerned with learned skills:

Cerebral cortex: informs us of the relationships between the ideas that reach our
consciousness and the order in which they should be considered. It establishes order on
the items and situations we come into contact with.

6. According to information in the video consistent with text and lecture, this memory
(storage) system contain processes that enable consciousness and attention act like a
filter to support experience of reality

Our consciousness, which is also located in the cerebral cortex, enables us to examine,
contrast, and evaluate whatever we have drawn from our experiences. By fusing what
 we remember from the past, what we sense in the present, and what we predict from
the future, it helps us to react accordingly to new experiences.

7. According to the video: this mental process was used by Wundt and Titchner to study the
structural aspects and contents of the MIND:

Structuralism: Psychology should focus on what's going on in your head rather than
how/why it got there.

8. According to the video, James’ functionalist view of the MIND suggested that the
primary function of the MIND was:

James suggests that the function of the mind has to do with consciousness and what it
does for us. Everyone's consciousness is unique and different from anyone else's.

9. According to information in the video consistent with text and lecture, these inherent
processes of the brain determine selection and collapse to what Broadbent called the
“bottleneck”:

Attention or “focused awareness” is something we all have that is limited and that we
can only use a little bit at a time.

10. According to information in this and other videos consistent with text and lecture, the
methods that Watson developed to study learning are:

Behaviorist approach: He says that the only thing that should be observed and studied
and that consciousness is scientifically proven to be worthless.

11. According to information in this and other videos consistent with text and lecture, the
methods that Broadbent developed to study attention and memory are:

Daydreaming: Broadbent showed us how our attention is limited through an experiment.

It proved how sometimes our mind wanders and we don’t pick up on the information
around us.

12. Information in the video describes these four hypotheses concerned with the role of
sleep in living systems

- Sleep has two restorative processes: involving protein synthesis and restoration of
brain processes.
- Brain activity is more prominent when we're asleep than we originally thought.
- During the whole sleep cycle, our brain waves change and show these changes.
 - Every 90 minutes throughout our REM sleep we get woken up.
13. Information in the video suggests these areas of the brain are responsible for sleep and
sleep cycles:

- Cerebral cortex
- Thalamus
- hypothalamus
- pituitary and pineal glands

14. The method used to measure these cycles described in number 13 is called:

- Biological clock

15. The method used by Freud to analyze dreams is called:

- Psychoanalysis

16. Please assess your answers and compile a list of independent variables used to study the
causal chain resulting in consciousness in the video

- Attention
- Sleep
- Daydreaming/dreams
- Brain and mind

17. Assess your list: include any variable that might be missing:

- Sensory signals
- Physiological responses

Please go to this site:

https://www.learner.org/series/discovering-psychology/the-mind-hidden-and-divided/

to view: The divided MIND

1. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, anesthesia
alters explicit functions attributed to this mental process concerned with experience of
reality:

- Consciousness
2. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the effect of
anesthesia on neural and psychological functions in the brain should include:

- Becoming listless
- Becoming moody
- Developing depression
- Developing PTSD

3. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the primary
function of the method of hypnosis is to:

- Get control over unwanted behavior

- Cope with anxiety and pain

4. Using information presented in the video, text and lecture concerned with the statement
“Know thy self” and Descartes statement “I think therefore I am”: please list the elements
of the causal chain common to both statements

- Can’t doubt that he existed since he is the one doubting

5. Information necessary to answer the questions posed by Zimbardo and Descartes is

located in the memory system called:

- Cognitive Modules

6. the cognitive/mental process pioneered by Wundt and Titchner used to examine the
participant making the statements in number 4 is called:

- Introspection

7. According to the video, the mental process altered by anesthesia that is controlled by
and active during mindfulness is called:

- Subconscious awareness

8. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the contents
of experience of NOW are contained in the memory storage system called:

- Recovered memory
9. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the cognitive
process/mental process in question 6 is contained in the memory system called:

- Prefrontal cortex

10. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the concept
of repression is executed by the following event in the causal chain for the purpose of:

- Traumatic thoughts and feelings

11. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the memory
system most likely to control the answer to number 10 is:

- Frontal Cortex

12. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, How did
Freud suggest that the contents of the unconscious brain alter behavior:

- Overcoming information that was not previously acquired.

13. According to the operationalized and interrogated definition of behavior, the contents
of the unconscious brain create this state in the individual:

- Repression

14. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the contents
of the unconscious brain are stored in this memory system:

- Cerebellum

15. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, the contents
of the conscious brain are stored in this memory system:

- Hippocampus

16. According to information in the consistent with that in the text and lecture, as well as that
concerned with the video concerned with operationalizing and interrogating behavior
and mental processes, these mental processes transition contents from the unconscious
storage system to the conscious memory system:

- Peripheral cortex
17. This information in the video concerned with the methods of hypnosis was used to
suggest that thought occurs within the causal chain

- Can show change in our perception, memory, emotions, behavior, and bodily
function

18. The procedure that results in split-brain phenomena is called:

- Hypnosis

19. The region of the brain lesioned during the procedure described in number 18 is called:

- Corpus callosum

20. In the video: Gazzaga suggests these primary functions are performed by your answer to
number 19:

- Made up of around 200 million nerve fibers

- The fibers carry the information to all sides of the brain
- If these nerves are “severed” the electrical impulses in the brain that result in
epileptic seizures will be prevented from spreading.

21. The role of the interpreter in the theory of self and sense of self discussed in the video is:

- It allows us to group together all of our personal experiences and responses to

give them an interpretation of sorts.