AP Psychology State of Consciousness Exam

What is most likely to happen under hypnosis?

A person may be unable to report their grandmother's name if asked to forget it.

Myla goes to a hypnotist because she is interested in losing weight. Under hypnosis she is told that, later on, when she is hungry, she will eat less than she normally would. The hypnotist is making use of?

a posthypnotic suggestion

Until reading this question you were unaware that your shoes are pressing against your feet. This focusing of your conscious attention, or selective attention, illustrates that?

conscious awareness is one part of the dual processing that occurs in our two-track minds.

sleep deprivation has been shown to?

diminish immunity to disease

Which of the following is the term most closely associated with the split in consciousness that allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others?

dissociation

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

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

Traffic accident rates have been found to do what after the spring change to daylight savings time and to what after the fall change back to standard time.

increase; decrease

Which of the following dream theories states that dreams help us sort out the days events and consolidate our memories?

information-processing

Sigmund Freud believed that a dream's what content reflected the deep, underlying meaning of the dream.

latent

Which of the following sleep disorders would have the most negative impact for a commercial bus driver?

narcolepsy

research indicates that memories retrieved during hypnosis are?

often a combination of fact and fiction

How did the definition of psychology change when behaviorism began to dominate the field?

psychology centered on direct observation of our actions

The circadian rhythm is influenced by light-sensitive retinal proteins that trigger signals to the...?

suprachiasmatic nucleus