Exam 10: A: Consciousnessconsciousness

What happens during binocular rivalry?

Shifting onto daylight saving time impairs many people's alertness and performance.

Dreams accurately predict the future.

Most neurons stop all activity during sleep.

​Describe the study with the spot of light going around a clock,in which researchers measured the time of a conscious decision relative to brain activity and the start of a movement.

Dreaming occurs only during REM sleep.

Freud referred to the hidden meaning of a dream as the ____________________ content.

Hypnosis can reduce people's emotional response to pain.

Paradoxical sleep,marked by high brain activity but no muscle activity,is synonymous with _____ sleep.

Increased activity in the motor cortex of the brain prior to the start of a movement is known as the _________ potential

​A period of discomfort and inefficiency while your internal clock is out of phase with your new surroundings is called ______ _______.

​Give an example of a practical use of hypnosis that has been supported empirically and an example of a claim that has not been supported.

Cells in your brain generate a 24-hour rhythm that affects sleepiness and other activities.

Someone in a vegetative state shows more responsiveness than someone in a coma.

​Hypnosis improves the accuracy of people's memories.

​People traveling west suffer more serious jet lag than do people traveling east.

Most therapists and researchers today agree with Freud's method of analyzing dreams.

Someone who does not get enough sleep at night to feel well rested the next day is suffering from _____.​

An EEG of a person under hypnosis resembles the EEG of a sleeping person.

The area of the brain known to generate the body's circadian rhythm is the ____________________.