Exam 6: Consciousness

If you are interested in examining the individual consciousness components that affect your own subjective experiences,you should study phenomenology.

Minimal consciousness refers to a state characterized by bizarre,disorganized,or dreamlike thought patterns.

Night terrors are most likely to occur during __________ of sleep.

Which theorist,attempting to explain what dreams are all about,suggested that there are two levels of content to each dream - the manifest content and the latent content.

A(n)__________ is a person who requires far fewer than 8 hours of sleep per day.

Thanks to the __________ function of consciousness,we don't waste our attention on information that is not immediately relevant to our situations or salient to our own lives.

The average teenager needs about ____ hours of sleep per night,but only gets about ___ per night.

Which neurotransmitter is responsible for inhibiting most muscular activity while we are in REM sleep?

Most experts agree that meditation can be a powerful,natural antidote to anxiety and stress.

The __________ rhythm is a biological clock that regulates body functions on a 24-hour cycle.

Researchers have discovered that susceptibility to hypnosis may be linked to efficiency of the __________ in the brain.

Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to hypnosis?

Gwen is very impulsive and often acts without thinking.Some of her behaviors are not entirely moral or ethical,but she tends to have difficulty taking a moment to stop and think before she acts.Which of her conscious processes is failing to do its job effectively?

The __________ unconscious refers to a collection of mental processes that affect the way a person feels or behaviors,even though he or she is not consciously aware of them.

Your ability to focus on your teacher in class while disregarding the various chit-chatty conversations that your classmates have around you is due to the selective storage function of consciousness.

The __________ theory of why we dream resembles the memory theory of why we sleep.

Which of the following has research found hypnosis to be very effective at treating?

Sleep __________,a sleep disorder in which people intermittently stop breathing during sleep causing the level of oxygen in their blood to drop,can seriously impact a person's sense of getting rest from their sleep.

What is the biggest difference between the different stages of the sleep cycle?

Barry was working in his workshop one evening when he got a one-inch cut on his forearm.It bled for several minutes before he was able to apply a bandage without it bleeding through.After a good night of sleep,he noticed that his injury had formed a rough scab that was now protecting the cut as it healed.The fact that this happened while Barry slept is evidence of the __________ theory of sleep.