| access consciousness | conscious contents amenable to research |
| phenomenal consciousness | raw/private experiences |
| four features of emotions | eliciting stimuli |
| Adam put his hand in a tub before realising a snake was in there, he reflexively moved his hand away from the tub, and felt his hear rate quicken and his breathing become heavy, the snake is an .... | eliciting stimuli |
| Yianni saw a man give him what may have been a threatening look, he immediately became worried and anxious, before calming down after about 10 minutes. His initial appraisal of the situation was ... | non conscious and automatic |
| Joseph Le Doux 'neural travelling' theory: Two roads of connections | low road= thalamus-amygdala; high road= thalamus-cerebral cortex- amygdala |
| hemispheric activation | Left hemisphere=positive emotion; right hemisphere= negative emotion |
| fight-or-flight system | physiological reaction in SMN/hormone |
| appraisal theory | emotion caused by cognitive evaluation |
| Diane saw a photo of animals being killed for meat and felt upset, Jake on the other hand reminded himself that he regularly eats meat and that such actions are necessary. Diane has a .... appraisal whilst jake as a ... appraisal | negative; positive |
| affective blindisight | unconscious perception of valanced stimuli |
| Zanjonc Affective Primacy | sometimes emotions occur before appraisals |
| Smith and Lazarus primary and secondary appraisals | Primary= motivational relevance/congruence; secondary= accountability, problem focused, emotion focused, future expectancy |
| Wegner's illusion of control theory | priority, consistency, exclusivity |
| priority refers to a conscious thought being ... an action. Consistency refers to a thought being ... with an action. And exclusivity refers to the thought being ... ... for an action | before; consistent; the only explanation |
| dual route cascaded model | Lexical and non-lexical word processing |
| route 1 | non-lexical- convert words to sounds |
| route 2 | lexical, direct access to meaning |
| as i walk past the man in the blue cap, i see him press his phone against his ear and i know that he is receiving a call. This is an example of... | theory of mind |
| inferring agency | a self-propelled creature has agency |
| agents pursue ... | goals |
| inferring intentionality | having skill to reach goals |
| synchrony | mutual mimicry |
| automatic empathy | emotional synchrony |
| visual perspective taking | adopting another persons POV |
| Brianna gets frustrated at Diane for not being able to work out the maths equation. She believes it should be easy for everyone as it was easy for her, she is .... | projecting |
| cognitive neuropschology | cognitive performance shown by brain-damaged patients |
| Amy was trying to decide if the object in the sky was a bird or a plane. She is using her... | ventral stream |
| Abraham is walking though a shopping aisle when he sees in his peripheral vision a lady tripping over. In a split second he re-orients his body to catch the lady before she hits the ground. He is using his... | dorsal stream |
| allocentric vision | object-centred vision |
| egocentric vision | body-centred vision |
| optic ataxia | problems with visually guided action |
| visual form agnosia | inability to identify objects |
| visual illusions are not as ... when participants use the vision for action system | decisive |
| The D'action stream | vision for action |
| the Venception stream | vision for perception |
| Zeki's Functional Specialisation | each area of the brain processes specific quality |
| Zeki'a areas | V1 V2, V3 V3A, V4, V5 |
| Achromatopsia | colour vision impairment, V4 damage |
| motion processing is ... with activity in .. | associated; V5 |
| akinetopsia | deficient motion perception |
| first order display | contrast in luminance between moving shape/background |
| second order display | no contrast between moving shape/background |
| binding problem | how do different specialisations achieve coherent processing? |
| recurrent processing ... the information generated by the visual cortex through a ... | integrates; feedforward sweep |
| ... and .... have bee used to inhibit recurrent processing | masking; TMS |
| recurrent processing is ... for conscious visual experience | essential |
| Humphrey believed the main functions of consciousness are ... | social |
| ERP results found that the 'readiness potential' when participants performed motor actions occured... conscious intention | before |
| Wegner's participants felt that they were controlling the cursor when it matched their .... and when they were ... with the target object | goals; primed |
