psychology ch 10

Morgan is conducting a research study investigating aspects of conscious awareness. Participants are shown a series of numbers that are flashed onto a screen, followed several milliseconds later with a series of lines. What method is Morgan using in this study?

Backward masking

Which is true about evening people?

Evening people tend to be more extroverted.

Which technique provides a measure of brain activity that is fairly precise in terms of the location, but less precise with respect to timing?

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Meb is seeing a therapist to help him stop smoking. As part of the therapy, the therapist places him in an altered state of consciousness where he is highly suggestible and therefore more open to suggestions for alternative behaviors. Which technique is the therapist using?

Hypnosis

Which of the following statements about hypnosis is true?

Hypnosis can alleviate pain.

Which disorder can be described as an intrusion of REM sleep into the waking period?

Narcolepsy

The circadian rhythm of sleep and wakefulness is generated by which brain structure?

Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Which of the following is an example of a circadian rhythm?

The body-temperature cycle

Individuals who respond strongly to books and movies, and are very open to the power of suggestion, are likely to respond well to

hypnosis

Laurel snores loudly and repeatedly stops breathing when asleep, then wakes up gasping for breath. Laurel likely has

sleep apnea.

Which of the following can help someone who has occasional insomnia?

Keeping the bedroom cool and quiet.

Which description best describes the minimally conscious state?

A state in which an individual has brief periods of purposeful actions and speech comprehension.

Which theory of dreaming regards dreaming as a kind of thinking, similar to daydreaming, that occurs under specific conditions, such as loss of voluntary control of thinking?

Neurocognitive

During which sleep stage is the brain most active?

REM

During her latest hypnosis session, Ciara's therapist told her "When you awaken each morning you feel confident and ready to face the day." What technique was the therapist using?

Posthypnotic suggestion

Dr. Adrian Owen and colleagues used fMRI to record the brain activity of a woman who was in a persistent vegetative state following a traffic accident. While in the scanner, they asked her to imagine playing tennis. What did the fMRI indicate about her brain activity?

Activity increased in the region of motor cortex that would be active if she was getting ready to hit a tennis ball.

Dr. Ross is looking at an EEG output from one of her research participants, and notes the presence of sleep spindles. What stage of sleep does that indicate?

Stage 2

Gaddiel is driving during rush hour and focusing on the traffic. He notices that the driver in front of him has slammed on the brakes. A split-second later, a deer darts onto the road. Gaddiel is unlikely to process the event of the deer darting into the road because of

attentional blink.

Akira was riding a horse for the first time when he suddenly felt that the experience was uncannily familiar, but was unable to describe why. Akira was experiencing

déjà vu.

The widget factory runs three work shifts around the clock. They rotate their workers among the three shifts so that no one always has to work the midnight to 8 a.m. shift. What is the best way for the employees to be rotated among the shifts, so that the disruption to the employees' sleep schedules are minimized?

Workers should always be transferred to a later shift.