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SELECTION EXAM UVA PSYCHOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE GRADED A++
2025/2026
Terms in this set (105)
Define consciousness A person's subjective experience of the world
and the mind.
Define cartesian A mental screen or stage on which things
theatre appear to be presented for viewing by the
mind's eye
WHat makes it There is no way to measure the conscious
so hard to experience directly
study
consciousness
?
What is the The difficulty of explaining how subjective
hard problem experience could ever arise.
of
consciousness
?
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Define How things actually seem in the state of
phenomenology consciousness in terms of the quality of
experience.
WHat is the Difficulty of explaining the experience of
homunculus problem? consciousness by advocating another
internal self.
The fundamental difficulty we have in
perceiving the consciousness of others.
What is the problem of There is a personal quality to qualia that
other minds? cannot be directly accessed by others, no
matter how well you describe the
experience. For example, I know how red
looks like to me but no matter how well
I describe the colour red I will never be
able to know if
others see red(experience life) in the same way I
do.
Define Qualia Subjective experiences we have as part of our
mental life.
Define materialism Philosophical position that mental states are a
product of physical processes alone.
Define The tendency to attribute human qualities to
anthropomorphism nonhuman things
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Aim: To investigate how
people perceive other
minds
Method: Participants
took part in a large
online survey in which
they were asked to
compare the
minds of 13 different
targets such as a baby,
chimp, robot , man and
woman, on 18 different
mental
capacities such as
feeling pain, pleasure,
Gray et al(2007) hunger and
consciousness.
Results: Participants who
were judging the mental
capacity to feel pain,
for example,
compared
targets: is a frog able to feel more pain than a
dog? Is a baby or a
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robot more able to feel
pain? Is a seven-week-
old fetus or a man in a
persistent vegetative
state more able to feel
pain? When the
researchers examined all
the comparisons on the
different mental
capacities with the
computational technique
of factor analysis (see
Chapter 9), they found
two dimensions of
mind perception.
Conclusion: People
judge minds according
to the capacity for
experience, such as the
ability to feel pain,
pleasure, hunger,
consciousness, anger or
fear, and the capacity
for agency, such as the
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SELECTION EXAM UVA PSYCHOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE GRADED A++
2025/2026
Terms in this set (105)
Define consciousness A person's subjective experience of the world
and the mind.
Define cartesian A mental screen or stage on which things
theatre appear to be presented for viewing by the
mind's eye
WHat makes it There is no way to measure the conscious
so hard to experience directly
study
consciousness
?
What is the The difficulty of explaining how subjective
hard problem experience could ever arise.
of
consciousness
?
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Define How things actually seem in the state of
phenomenology consciousness in terms of the quality of
experience.
WHat is the Difficulty of explaining the experience of
homunculus problem? consciousness by advocating another
internal self.
The fundamental difficulty we have in
perceiving the consciousness of others.
What is the problem of There is a personal quality to qualia that
other minds? cannot be directly accessed by others, no
matter how well you describe the
experience. For example, I know how red
looks like to me but no matter how well
I describe the colour red I will never be
able to know if
others see red(experience life) in the same way I
do.
Define Qualia Subjective experiences we have as part of our
mental life.
Define materialism Philosophical position that mental states are a
product of physical processes alone.
Define The tendency to attribute human qualities to
anthropomorphism nonhuman things
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Aim: To investigate how
people perceive other
minds
Method: Participants
took part in a large
online survey in which
they were asked to
compare the
minds of 13 different
targets such as a baby,
chimp, robot , man and
woman, on 18 different
mental
capacities such as
feeling pain, pleasure,
Gray et al(2007) hunger and
consciousness.
Results: Participants who
were judging the mental
capacity to feel pain,
for example,
compared
targets: is a frog able to feel more pain than a
dog? Is a baby or a
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robot more able to feel
pain? Is a seven-week-
old fetus or a man in a
persistent vegetative
state more able to feel
pain? When the
researchers examined all
the comparisons on the
different mental
capacities with the
computational technique
of factor analysis (see
Chapter 9), they found
two dimensions of
mind perception.
Conclusion: People
judge minds according
to the capacity for
experience, such as the
ability to feel pain,
pleasure, hunger,
consciousness, anger or
fear, and the capacity
for agency, such as the
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