Exam 5: States of Consciousness

Kinnunen et al. (1994) used skin conductance measure to examine whether hypnotized individuals truly believed they were hypnotized, or were simply "acting hypnotized" to please the hypnotist. What were Kinnunen et al.'s (1994) results

Brief periods of 'spiky' brain wave patterns called sleep spindles are characteristic of ____ sleep.

Roy Baumeister and his colleagues have argued that which of the following behaviors can help us escape from consciousness

Which of the following sequences reflects the successive brain wave patterns sleepers display as they fall asleep and enter progressively deeper sleep stages

Which of the following drugs is NOT a stimulant

Hallucinogens act mainly by mimicking the action of __________ at the synapses.

Which of the following defines a circadian rhythm

With regard to the activation-synthesis theory, activation is to synthesis as _______ is to _________.

Which alternative correctly pairs a class of psychoactive drugs with its mechanism of action

Which of the following statements is true concerning inhalants

Successive REM periods lengthen as the night progresses.

The drug Chantix is prescribed to help people quit smoking cigarettes. Chantix is a:

In which of the following sets are the three words most highly associated

Terry swears that he'll never take "oxies" again. When he stopped using oxycontin, though, he had chills, cramps, and diarrhea. Which term offers the MOST SPECIFIC description of Terry's experience

Your text argues that skin conductance is a reliable indicator of deception. A skin conductance measure therefore offers a suitable ___________ definition of deception.

Of the theories of the function of dreaming mentioned in your text, the activation-synthesis theory is probably the most:

Sensory deprivation becomes unpleasant and less beneficial when sessions are longer than about:

Rauchs and colleagues (2005) found that rats that were not allowed to dream

Which of the following alternatives correctly defines withdrawal

Which of the following statements is true concerning the ability of hypnotized people to control their own behavior