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
