Exam 5: Consciousness

Interpretation of the ________ content of a dream is expected to reveal the ________ content.

Kennedy is visiting a friend's new apartment when she suddenly gets the eerie feeling that she has been there before. Assuming Kennedy has never actually been to the apartment before, she appears to be experiencing

Manifest content is to latent content as

If you have been waking up too early for several weeks, you are probably suffering from

One approach to meditation, called __________________, has been shown to reduce everyday levels of stress, depression, anxiety, as well as more chronic psychiatric disorders.

A central idea in the description of hypnosis is the word:

The phenomenon whereby higher doses of a drug are required to produce its original effects is

According to the dissociation theory of hypnosis, a part of our consciousness called the ___________________ remains separate during hypnosis and silently watches.

You are watching sleep researchers monitor the sleep of a normal adult. The participant is hooked up to an EEG. What brain waves would you observe as the person becomes drowsy and then Enters the first stage of sleep?

One technique to improve sleep is to stay in bed for 30 minutes. If you are not asleep by then, get up and do something else until you are about to fall asleep, then return to bed.

Young children sometimes experience ________________, which can cause them to wake from NREM sleep screaming.

A fairly recent approach to understanding hypnosis, the __________________theory, explains hypnosis by emphasizing the degree to which beliefs and expectations contribute to increased suggestibility.

Scientists are skeptical about the psychoanalytic theory of dreaming because the _____ of a dream is entirely subject to interpretation.

______________ occur during REM sleep, while __________________ occur during NREM sleep.

Because barbiturates can fatally suppress breathing and heart rate at high doses, ____________________ are generally considered a safer alternative drug.

Narcolepsy involves

Sleep apnea is a disorder in which

Elsa has just had major abdominal surgery and is in great pain. She asks her doctor if there is a medication that will relieve the pain from her injury. Which of the following is her doctor most likely to prescribe?

Dr. Sanchez is a psychoanalyst who is interested in analyzing dreams using Freud's perspective. As a psychoanalyst, he focuses on interpreting the __________ content of his clients' dreams in an attempt to understand their unconscious wishes and thoughts that may be expressed symbolically in their dreams.

Which theory suggests that hypnosis is the result of people conforming to their beliefs about how people should behave when under hypnosis?