Exam 6: States of Consciousness

After a major dental surgery, Lara's dentist prescribed codeine to her. Codeine acts as a(n) _______________ by activating endorphin-receiving receptors.

According to the modular model of the mind, consciousness arises from the interaction of separate but interacting subsystems or units.

Both jet lag and seasonal affective disorder can be treated by controlled exposure to light.

You are looking at the EEG of an individual. The EEG is dominated by alpha waves. This person is

Can nonconscious processes influence emotional responses?

Looking at a map and deciding what route to take to a new destination is most relevant to the concept of _________________ processing.

An individual is taking part in a sleep study. At some point in the night, she experiences a nigh terror. What stage of sleep was she likely in when this started?

Which is true of divided attention? It _______________.

The two primary effects of drugs called ____________ are to reduce pain and to induce euphoria.

The part of the brain that contains the "REM-sleep On" neurons that signal the other parts of the brain and control different aspects of REM sleep is called the _______________.

Some people are extremely good at multitasking. They are able to hold a conversation while entering data into a computer, or write a letter while watching television. The ability to attend to and perform more than one activity at once is known as

REM sleep is the only stage of sleep in which we dream or experience mental activity.

Masahiro carries on detailed and quite fluent conversations with himself in the middle of the night. His wife suspects that he is not really asleep and insists he be tested at the university sleep lab one night. The EEG revealed he was truly asleep while conversing with himself. The brain activity helped the researchers establish ___________________.

Experiments designed to examine the effectiveness of various treatments for pain have found that

Assume that you were a physician who is treating a person with seasonal affective disorder. Based on your knowledge of effective treatments for this problem, which of the following would you recommend?

Sleep habits like going to bed at a regular time, controlling the room temperature, avoiding heavy late-night meals consistently show better sleep outcomes?

Critics of the activation-synthesis theory of dreaming suggest that it overestimates the bizarreness of dreams and fails to consider the fact that _______________.

It is the end of the quarter, and David has just stayed up all night to study for an exam. Research would suggest that which of the following would be most likely to occur? David's _______________.

Smith et al. (2002) compared the grades of students enrolled in classes that started at either 8 am or those that began later, as a function of whether the students self-reported being an 'early bird' (someone who typically feels best earlier in the day) or 'night owl' (i.e. someone who typically feels best later in the day). What did they find?

The best thing to do to reset your circadian clock would be to expose yourself to outdoor light in the __________ when you are flying to the _____.