AP Psych - Unit 2 chapter 2

In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in his psychology class, he viewed the image that we looked at in class and readily identified it as a rabbit instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?

priming

Sigmund Freud believed that dream analysis was a useful device for

gaining insight into unconscious motives

REM sleep

"rapid eye movement" 90 min linked to memory consolidation. brain waves similar to wakefulness vivid dreams/ volutnary muscle paralysis Paradoxical sleep

Which of the following is an explanation of why we sleep?

-Sleep allows us to conserve energy -Sleep promotes memory consolidation -Sleep clears the brain of useless information -Sleep helped our ancestors to avoid nocturnal predators

Which of the following statements concerning sleep is valid?

Individuals do not typically act out their dreams

Maeve says that her dream about going to a World Series game is just her brain attempting to make sense of random stimulation from the brain stem. Maeve's explanation is consistent with which of the following theories of dreaming?

Activation-synthesis

Malia is 10 years of age, and her grandmother, Anna Rosa, is 60 years old. Which statement is likely to be true concerning their sleep patterns?

Anna Rosa sleeps fewer hours per day than Malia does.

Which of the following are involved in regulating circadian rhythms?

Light-responsive cells on the back of the eye, hypothalamus, pineal gland

Deprivation of REM sleep for a few nights may result in _______________ during the next evening's sleep

REM rebound

Memories are thought to

Reside in the preconscious until they are needed and retrieved by consciousness

The pattern of human physiological processes is controlled by an internal "biological clock" that is

Sensitive to light-dark cycles

A cognitive neuroscientist would be most likely to have subjects _______________________ to determine which brain areas are active during different mental tasks

Undero fMRI, PET, EEG testing

EEG

a device used to record the electrical activity of the brain

All of the following are characteristic of REM sleep EXCEPT

deep sleep

pineal gland

in response to incoming light, this gland secretes melatonin ( a hormone which regulates sleep and wakefulness).

Rafael has a sleep disorder for which he takes medically prescribed amphetamines. For which of the following sleep disorders is Rafael most likely being treated?

narcolepsy

circadian rhythms

physiological patterns that repeat approximately every 24 hours

biological clock

suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus, controls metabolism, heart rate, body temp, hormonal activity

what is an example of a conscious process

trying to choose the best answer to this question