Question 1

________ meditation involves narrowing one's focus to a single event,whereas _______ meditation involves allowing attention to flow freely and focusing on whatever comes to mind.

Accepted Answer

A)  Awareness; concentrative
B)  Qi; chi
C)  Chi; qi
D)  Concentrative; mindfulness

Question 2

Sigmund Freud would agree with all of the following EXCEPT _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  dreams were meaningful and had important psychological significance
B)  one's description of the dream that they had would be the manifest content.
C)  the key to analyzing a dream will be found in the latent content
D)  Freud never really believed that dreams represented the unconscious

Question 3

Research by James Vicary conducted in the 1950s demonstrating the effects of ________ turned out to be a hoax.

Accepted Answer

A)  night terrors
B)  hypnosis
C)  subliminal perception
D)  meditation

Question 4

Which of the following can be an emotional symptom of sleep deprivation?

Accepted Answer

A)  hyperactivity
B)  cheerfulness
C)  depression
D)  nausea

Question 5

Consciousness is produced by brain activity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following statements might help you determine if an individual has narcolepsy?

Accepted Answer

A)  "I have difficulty getting to sleep."
B)  "I don't have an adverse reaction to sleeping pills."
C)  "I sometimes suddenly fall asleep in the middle of a conversation."
D)  "When I get up in the morning,I have the feeling that I had really bad nightmares."

Question 7

REM behavior disorder most commonly occurs among _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  older men
B)  older women
C)  children
D)  the poor

Question 8

Bobby might have a condition known as __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  sleep apnea
B)  narcolepsy
C)  REM sleep behavior disorder
D)  night terrors

Question 9

Russell needs more of the drug he has been using to get the normal high he got when he first started.Russell is experiencing _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  drug tolerance
B)  drug detoxification
C)  withdrawal
D)  overdrawal

Question 10

Which device would a sleep researcher use to monitor a sleeping person's brain waves?

Accepted Answer

A)  electromyograph (EMG) 
B)  electrocardiograph (EKG) 
C)  electro-oculograph (EOG) 
D)  electroencephalograph (EEG)

Question 11

Which of the following people will be helped by hypnosis?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jeff,who would like to run faster
B)  Celia,who wants a better memory
C)  Kiesha,who wants to remember what happened to her when she was 4 years old
D)  Carlos,who wants to stop thinking about his foot pain

Question 12

Laurarose has recently been suffering from intensive nightmares.Her therapist has suggested that she engage in a new exercise where she will "rewrite" her nightmare by visualizing positive images while awake.This practice is called ________ therapy.

Accepted Answer

A)  in-vivo exposure
B)  systematic desensitization
C)  imagery rehearsal
D)  virtual reality

Question 13

When people are deprived of REM sleep due to general sleep loss,they will spend more time in REM sleep afterward.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which researcher is responsible for proposing the idea that dreams are responsible for helping to establish neural memory networks?

Accepted Answer

A)  Reiser
B)  Hobson
C)  McCarley
D)  Freud

Question 15

REM sleep refers to __________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  dreamless sleep
B)  sleep induced by sleeping pills
C)  sleep periods in which sleepwalking is likely
D)  sleep periods in which a person's eyes move rapidly

Question 16

The activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming is the work of which theorist(s) ?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hilgard
B)  Freud
C)  Reiser
D)  Hobson and McCarley

Question 17

A dream that arouses feelings of intense fear,horror,and distress is called a _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  hypnogogic image
B)  nightmare
C)  hypnopompic hallucination
D)  night terror

Question 18

Altered states of consciousness can only be produced by drug consumption or by meditation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

________ occurs when an earlier stimulus influences our response to a later stimulus.It often affects people on an unconscious level.

Accepted Answer

A)  Chunking
B)  Priming
C)  Interference
D)  Rumination

Question 20

Consciousness can be adequately defined as one's awareness of everything going on in the environment around them at any given moment in time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 4: Consciousness

________ occurs when an earlier stimulus influences our response to a later stimulus.It often affects people on an unconscious level.

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REM sleep refers to __________________.

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Which researcher is responsible for proposing the idea that dreams are responsible for helping to establish neural memory networks?

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Which device would a sleep researcher use to monitor a sleeping person's brain waves?

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Consciousness can be adequately defined as one's awareness of everything going on in the environment around them at any given moment in time.

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The activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming is the work of which theorist(s) ?

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REM behavior disorder most commonly occurs among _________________.

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________ meditation involves narrowing one's focus to a single event,whereas _______ meditation involves allowing attention to flow freely and focusing on whatever comes to mind.

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Which of the following people will be helped by hypnosis?

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When people are deprived of REM sleep due to general sleep loss,they will spend more time in REM sleep afterward.

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Bobby might have a condition known as __________.

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Consciousness is produced by brain activity.

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Altered states of consciousness can only be produced by drug consumption or by meditation.

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Research by James Vicary conducted in the 1950s demonstrating the effects of ________ turned out to be a hoax.

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Sigmund Freud would agree with all of the following EXCEPT _______________.

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Which of the following statements might help you determine if an individual has narcolepsy?

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A dream that arouses feelings of intense fear,horror,and distress is called a _______.

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Russell needs more of the drug he has been using to get the normal high he got when he first started.Russell is experiencing _______________.

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Laurarose has recently been suffering from intensive nightmares.Her therapist has suggested that she engage in a new exercise where she will "rewrite" her nightmare by visualizing positive images while awake.This practice is called ________ therapy.

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Which of the following can be an emotional symptom of sleep deprivation?

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