Exam 10: A: Consciousnessconsciousness

If your left eye looks at red stripes and your right eye looks at green stripes,you will see red stripes superimposed on green stripes.

Hypnotists generally say that you won't do anything under hypnosis that you would refuse to do otherwise.What does the evidence say about this claim?

People of what age are most likely to be morning people? _____

During binocular rivalry,if you are unconscious of what one eye sees,you nevertheless unconsciously determine whether it is meaningful or important.

Someone who becomes blind because a stroke damaged the visual cortex can nevertheless synchronize waking and sleeping to the rising and setting of the sun.

Most dreams are happier than everyday life.

Most old people do better on memory tests early in the morning than later in the day.

​A hypnotic suggestion can decrease the sensation of _______.

Masking,flash suppression,and binocular rivalry are methods of presenting a stimulus but preventing consciousness of it.

Larger animal species need more sleep than smaller species.

During the time of sleep when the brain is most active,the muscles are least active.

When you decide to do something,your reported time of making a conscious decision occurs before the relevant activity begins in your brain.

Brain activity is least during stage ______ of sleep.

Brain recordings suggest that some people in a vegetative state are conscious.​

In an unchanging environment,such as a cave or a submarine,you continue alternating between wakefulness and sleepiness on about a 24-hour schedule.

An important function of sleep is to save energy.

​Meditation improves people's ability to control their attention.

Someone who has emerged from a coma,and who now shows limited responses,such as increased heart rate in response to pain,is in a ----_________ state.

​Long,slow,high-amplitude waves on an EEG indicate a great deal of brain activity.

It is possible to hypnotize someone who does not wish to cooperate.