Psych Chap 8: States of Consciousness

According to Freud how do we feel when painful memoirs or unacceptable urges threaten to break into consciousness

Anxious

In the program the part of the brain that is identified as the interior decorator imposing order on experience is the

Cerebral cortex

Which park of the brain is responsible for conscious awareness

Cerebral cortex

Consciousness performs all of the following functions except

Goulding performance of highly routinized actions

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

Having systematic changes in hormone levels during 24 hrs

What happens if hypnotized person who expects to smell cologne actually smells ammonia

He interprets the ammonia smell as a musky cologne

What are Freudian slips thought to reveal

How we really feel

Which topic related to human consciousness is conveyed by the story of DR Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Identity transformation

Ernest Hartmann points out the logic behind Shakespeare's description of sleep. According to Hartmann a major function of sleep is that it allows the brain to

Integrate the day's events with previously learned material

All of the following appear to fluctuate based on circadian rhythm except

Intelligence

What is a positive function of daydreaming?

It enables us to be mentally active when we are bored

How normal is it to experience alternate states of consciousness

It is something we all experience every day

Sigmund Freud is to the unconscious as ____ is to discovered memories

Jonathan Schooler

What occurs about every 90 min throughout sleep

More than one of the above

Instances in which people believed they have remembered long forgotten traumatic events are known as

Recovered memories

According to Freud normal people banish undesirable memories from their conscious minds through

Repression

According to Freud dreams are significant b/c they

Reveal unconscious fears and desires

Communication between the two hemispheres of the brain is disrupted when

The corpus callosum is severed

According to McCarley and Hobson what is true about REM sleep

The random burst of brain activity occurs first followed by the dread era attempt to make sense of it

When societies around the world were studied what proportion of them practiced some culturally patterned form of altering consciousness

The vast majority