PSY 538 Quiz 6 Consciousness

Question 1

Why aren’t we explaining consciousness?

Answer 1

1. we are trying to reduce the problem to brain processes.

2. We continue to reify it and operate in the absence of any scientific definition

Question 2

How is consciousness only a word?

Answer 2

It’s not a thing, place or cognitive process; it’s only a word that we use in a variety of ways.

Question 3

How is qualia used?

Answer 3

As a subjective experience.

Question 4

To identify the behaviors that occur when we use the word “consciousness” so we can get on with the business of explaining those behaviors.

Answer 4

A more parsimonious approach.

Question 5

What are we doing when we say we are conscious?

Answer 5

we’re doing something: we’re talking (signing or writing) and/or imagining to ourselves about both our external and internal environments, and our own public and private behavior

Question 6

Consciousness according to Skinner?

Answer 6

. Reacting to one’s own behavior verbally, and is, thus, ironically a social product taught to us by others.

Question 7

What do we mean by consciousness?

Answer 7

we usually mean that she can describe what she is doing.

Question 8

What two neurological disorders provide evidence of consciousness as a verbal description of the environment and our own behavior

Answer 8

anterograde amnesia

visual agnosia