Exam 6: Consciousness

The ability to learn even while you are asleep is called somnapaedia.

According to research into sleep needs,most people will sleep for approximately ___ hours per night when they are not interrupted by external events.The research also found that this amount of sleep led to productive performance and improved mood.

During which stage of sleep are you most likely to experience vivid dreams?

The clock shifts in the spring and fall that are necessitated by Daylight Savings Time often throw off the internal clocks of people for several days.If you've memorized the phrase "spring forward,fall back," then you might appreciate the hour of sleep that you gain in the fall,and abhor the hour of sleep lost in the spring.Research,in fact,shows that __________ actually increased significantly after the spring change in a sample of Canadian individuals.

The activation-__________ theory of dreaming states that dreams are the result of the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural electrical activity while we sleep.

What does REM stand for?

Mitch is a firefighter who has been on the job for 16 years.One afternoon,while he is climbing into a burning building,he is overwhelmed by the fear that he will not make it out of this building alive.Immediately,he falls asleep right in front of the other firefighters.Thankfully they manage to get him out of the building uninjured,but given that he shows the signs of __________,Mitch should probably find a safer occupation.

Which of the body's hormones is primarily responsible for inducing sleep?

Approximately 10% of people can be so thoroughly immersed in hypnotic analgesia that they can undergo major surgery with little or no traditional anesthesia.

Freud believed that we bury information in the unconscious through the process of __________.

The neurotransmitter __________,which is a stimulating substance that operates in the hypothalamus,appears to be deficient or even absent in the brains of narcoleptic individuals.

Which of the following types of brain wave activity is generally seen as one of the dominant types during stage 1 sleep?

According to research,___ in 5 teenagers report that they wish they could get more sleep on weekdays.

Which of the following is not a facet of the benefits hypnotic analgesia for medical procedures?

How much time passes over the course of a circadian cycle?

The treatment for __________ usually involves wearing a masklike device that forces air into the lungs during sleep.

The __________ theory of dreaming suggests that dreams help us sort and place the day's experiences into our memories.

What is the reason why REM sleep is referred to as paradoxical sleep?

Which part of the brain remains active during sleep and explains why we are able to distinguish important stimuli from irrelevant ones,and wake up only when it is truly necessary?

The __________ function is an aspect of consciousness that helps people inhibit urges they have that are not moral,ethical,or practical; it equips people with the conscious self-awareness necessary to analyze and evaluate their thoughts before they act on those thoughts.