Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions:

• Which of the following statements about consciousness is FALSE?
  • Consciousness requires a lot of cognitive resources and is therefore used sparingly.
    • Incorrect.
  • Change blindness suggests that not all perceptual information makes it into conscious awareness.
    • Incorrect.
  • Things we cannot consciously perceive cannot not affect our behavior.
    • Correct.
  • Change blindness suggests that people have a mental model that represents the gist of the scene but not the details
    • Incorrect.
• The cocktail party effect suggests that:
  • some ignored information is processed for meaning.
    • Correct.
  • some ignored information is processed for perceptual features.
    • Incorrect.
  • people are not capable of attending to a single conversation.
    • Incorrect.
  • people are capable of attending to a single conversation and filter out all others.
    • Incorrect.
• Libet’s studies on making a decision to move suggests that:
  • people have conscious control over their own movements.
    • Incorrect.
  • awareness of the decision to move follows the brain signal that generates the movement.
    • Correct.
  • the mind and the body are separate.
    • Incorrect.
  • conscious awareness generates brain activity rather than the other way around.
    • Incorrect.
• Research has demonstrated that when participants view extremely brief stimulus presentations, changes in activity in the thalamus predict the accuracy of their ability to categorize the stimulus presented on each trial. This is an example of:
  • the easy problem of consciousness.
    • Correct.
  • the hard problem of consciousness.
    • Incorrect.
  • blindsight.
    • Incorrect.
  • change blindness.
    • Incorrect.