AP Psych Consciousness

A machine that allows scientists to record the brain-wave activity as a person passes through the various stages of sleep and to determine what type of sleep the person has entered.

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Which neurotransmitter is affected by opiates?

Endorphins

Which of the following does not belong in the stimulant category?

Heroin

Whereas Han only used to drink one beer after work each day, he now drinks two or three. Clearly what has changed?

His tolerance for beer

Which of the following is true about the study of consciousness in psychology?

It is an important way of studying our two-track minds

_______________ is a powerful drug also known as d-lysergic acid diethylamide.

LSD

According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream

Latent contenet

Which external stimuli is the suprachiasmatic nucleus sensitive to?

Light

The emotional tone of our dreams is especially likely to be influenced by activation of the ________ during REM sleep.

Limbic system

According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream.

Manifest content

The hormone most closely related to one's sleep pattern is:

Melatonin

During what stage do night terrors occur?

NREM-3

A_______________is an altered sate of concoiusness reported after a close run in with death

Near death experience

Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms are indicative of

Physical dependence

A chemical substance that alters perceptions perception and mood.

Psychoactive drug

____________are usually used for recreational rather than medical purposes, though some have legitimate medical uses. These drugs change sensory experience, perception, mood, thinking, and behavior.

Psychoactive drugs

Even after Sam quit smoking, he still needs something in his mouth to help with the oral fixation that he experiences. This is an example of

Psychological dependence

The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep depreivation

REM rebound

Which part of the brain is important in keeping the forebrain alert and producing a state of wakefulness?

Reticular formation

Periodic natural loss of consciousness -as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma or hibernation...

Sleep

A type of snoring in which the person stops breathing for 10 seconds or more.

Sleep Apnea

Obesity is a risk factor for developing which of the following sleep disorders?

Sleep apnea

Sleep spindles show up during which sleep stage?

Stage 2 NREM

Drugs that increase the functioning of the nervous system. Amphetamines, Cocaine, Nicotine, Caffeine.

Stimulants

The major ingredient of marajuana.

THC

This is the main active chemical in marijuana.

THC

Which of the following is true of "hypnotically refreshed" memories?

They combine fact and fiction

Which of the following is a description of someone who suffers from sleep apnea?

They tend to stop breathing periodically at night

Neuroadaptation, the body's adjustment to a stimulus, is the same as

Tolerance

Clark has been going through extreme temperature swings, nausea, and vomiting since stopping using the psychoactive substance that he was taking. This can best be described as:

Withdrawal

Alpha waves are associated with

a relaxed but awake state

Antagonists are psychoactive drugs that

block the neurotransmitter receptor site

Which dream theory explains dreams as the forebrain attempt to interpret neural activity ?

Activation synthesis

An ______________ is a compulsive drug craving and use.

Addiction

REM sleep is most likely to be interrupted by _______________.

Alcohol

__________are drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment

Barbituates

Which of the following is an altered state of conciusness

Daydreaming

The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep are called

Delta waves

What type of brain waves happens during NRem-3 sleep?

Delta waves

Drugs that decrease the functioning of the nervous system. Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, Alcohol, Opium, Morphine, Heroin.

Depressants

A split in conscoiusnss which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simeotaneslously with others.

Dissociation

One plausible theory suggests that hypnosis relieves pain by

Distracting attention

our awareness of ourselves and our environment.

consciousness

Advocates of the social influence theory of hypnosis are likely to argue that

hypnotized people are simply enacting the role of good hypnotic subjects.

Characterized by reoccurring problems in falling or saying asleep

insomnia

Agonists are psychoactive drugs that

mimic and produce the same effect as a neurotransmitter

While Bev was hypnotized, her therapist suggested that during the next several days she would have a strong desire to eat well-balanced meals. The therapist was apparently making use of

posthypnotic suggestion

A suggestion made during hypnosis session,to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized.

posythnotic suggetion

In the context of this unit, the term tolerance refers to

the need for an increased amount of the drug to achieve the same effect

Which of the following can result in the chronic use of drugs

withdrawl, tolerance, and physical independence