Psychology Chapter 5

A state in which conscious experience can be reported to others in said to be:

Full consciousness

In Freud's view, dreams represent:

Hidden wishes

While Theresa is asleep, her roommate places Theresa's hand in bowl of cold water. Theresa removes her hand from the bowl but remains asleep. Theresa is at which level of consciousness?

Minimal consciousness

Although Alek is clearly sleeping, when Katrina pokes him in the ribs, Alek rolls over. This demonstrates that Alek is:

Minimally conscious

Which of the following statements about sleep is true?

NOT Newborns sleep less than the elderly.

Charlie is a long distance truck driver. The sleep disorder that would be most dangerous to him is:

Narcolepsy

_____ is a sleep disorder associated with an interruption in breathing for short periods of time.

Sleep apnea

The theory that suggests dreams are the mind's attempts to make sense of random neural activity occurring in the brain during sleep is the:

activation-synthesis model.

Which of these do people perceive as having experience but not agency?

an adult human

Dreaming is considered:

an altered state of consciousness

A form of experience that departs significantly from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind is called:

an altered state of consciousness.

The _____ includes all the mental processes that are not experienced by a person but that give rise to the person's thoughts, choices, emotions, and behaviors.

cognitive unconscious

Our subjective experience of the external world and our mind is called:

consciousness.

The state of consciousness in which a seemingly purposeless flow of thoughts comes to mind is termed:

daydreaming.

The brain waves associated with deep sleep are called:

delta waves.

Recent research has indicated that two dimensions of mind perception are:

experience and agency.

Reggie rarely gets enough Stage 3 and 4 sleep because his roommates stay up late partying most nights of the week. It is likely that Reggie will:

experience fatigue during the day.

Based on EEG records, it appears that sleep can be divided into _____ phases.

five

The most commonly reported sleep disorder is:

insomnia

A golfer consciously tries not to pull his drive, but a camera goes off during his backswing and he ends up pulling his drive into the trees. This BEST illustrates:

ironic processes of mental control.

Upon arriving at work, Bailey suddenly becomes aware that she must have zoned out, because she doesn't remember her 20-minute drive. Bailey was _____ during the drive.

minimally conscious

In the middle of a conversation, a friend suddenly falls deeply asleep. When he awakens, he states that this has happened on several occasions when he becomes excited. He probably has a disorder known as:

narcolepsy.

Drugs derived from opium that alleviate pain and induce lethargy are known as:

narcotics.

Freudian theory and the activation-synthesis model:

Differ in that Freud believed dreams begin with meaning and do not originate randomly

Which statement about marijuana is NOT true?

Marijuana improves motor skills and coordinations

On average, people alternate between REM sleep and slow-wave sleep about every _____ minutes over the course of a night.

90

Which of these do people perceive as having agency but lacking experience?

? not robot

The key symptom of Hallucinogenic drugs is their capacity to:

Alter perception and sensation

Which statement about sleepwalking is NOT true?

It occurs during REM sleep.

Which person is MOST likely to suffer from sleep apnea?

Jim, a 300-pound retired football player.

Which person is MOST likely to experience somnambulism?

Julie, an 8-year-old girl

Which statement about REM sleep is true?

REM sleep alternates throughout the night with other stages of sleep and tends to increase in duration throughout the night.

If asked not to think about a snowman, a person will Most likely:

Think bout a snowman much more

William James has suggested that self-consciousness occurs when:

our attention is drawn to ourselves as an object.

Freud described _____ as a mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness.

repression

Jeremy has no clue he has unconscious hostile urges to act aggressively against his boss. This is an example of:

repression.

The sleep disorder characterized by walking while asleep is called:

somnambulism.

As manager of a new movie theater, Ralph arranged to have messages about popcorn and candy flashed on the screen during the movie so quickly that they were outside of conscious awareness. Messages like this are called:

subliminal stimuli.

The mental technique of thought suppression is:

the conscious avoidance of a thought

Alex occasionally has self-doubts about his ability as a baseball player. His sports psychologist advised him that it is extremely important to banish these doubts from consciousness during games. Alex has found, however, that his self-doubts intensify following games. This is an example of:

the rebound effect of thought suppression.