AP Psych Unit 5 questions
Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues found that daily moods of working women were most heavily influenced by what?
A good night's sleep.
Dissociation refers to what?
A state of divided consciousness
What is a common symptom of nicotine withdrawal?
Anxiety
Sleep talking may occur during which stage of sleep?
Any stage of sleep.
Both hypnotized and unhypnotized subject were told to throw acid in a researcher's face. In this experiment, the hypnotized people...
Behaved in the same fashion as unhypnotized individuals
What was the school of thought in psychology that systematically avoided the study of consciousness during the first half of the last century?
Behaviorism
Understanding hypnosis in terms of focused attention, distinctive brain activity and the present of an authoritative presence in a legitimate context, requires what integrated approach?
Biopsychosocial
People become unresponsive to hypnosis if told that those who are highly gullible are easily hypnotized. This fact is most consistent with the theory that hypnosis involves what?
Conscious role-playing
One of the immediate effects of Ecstasy is what?
Dehydration
The larger, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep are called what?
Delta waves
Alcohol is considered what?
Depressant
Drugs such as alcohol and opiates that calm neural activity and slow body functions are called what?
Depressants
The greatest danger of viewing drug addiction as a disease is that this may lead drug addicts to what?
Feel powerless to overcome the addiction.
Bats need a lot of sleep because their high waking metabolism produces ? that are toxic to neurons?
Free radicals
LSD is most likely to produce what?
Hallucinations
Layla has difficulty going to sleep and staying asleep. Layla is most likely suffering from what?
Insomnia
According to Freud, the latent content of a dream refers to what?
Its underlying but censored meaning.
Chronic sleep debt is most likely to promote what?
Obesity
Morphine and heroin are what?
Opiates
What is evidence for cultural influences on sleep patterns?
People in countries without electric lights generally sleep longer
What provides the clearest indication of a drug addiction?
Physical dependence.
Deep sleep appears to play an important role in what?
Physical growth
Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and a wide variety of other chemical agents that alter perceptions and moods are called what?
Psychoactive drugs
At 3'oclock in the morning, Johan has already slept for 4 hours. As long as his sleep, continues, w can expect and increasing occurrence of what?
REM sleep
Paradoxical sleep is to slow-wave sleep as ? sleep is to ? sleep
REM sleep is to stage 3 REM sleep
Alpha waves are associated with what?
Relaxed but awake state.
Obesity is a risk factor for developing which of he following sleep disorders?
Sleep apnea
The claim that hypnotic phenomena are regulated by normal conscious processes is associated with the theory that hypnosis reflects the power of what?
Social influence
Compared with when they were only 20 years old, 60 year olds do what?
Spend less time in deep sleep
People are particularly responsive to hypnosis if they
Strongly expect that they can be hypnotized
The altered state of consciousness that is most similar to a drug-induced hallucination is what?
The near-death experience.
When people are experiencing vivid dreams what happens?
Their eyes are likely to move under their closed eyelids.
What do methamphetamine, caffeine and cocaine have in common?
They excited neural activity and arouse body functions.
After suffering a trauma, people commonly report an increase in what?
Threatening dreams.
Margie insists that she never dreams, but her sister feels she can prove otherwise. To prove that Margie does dream, the sister should do what?
Wake Margies after 5 minutes of REM sleep and ask her what she's dreaming.
