Exam 6: Consciousness

The term ____________________ refers to a sleep disorder in which a person is excessively sleepy and often catnaps during the day.

Dreaming seems to occur:

Synesthesia refers to:

The brain wave patterns that appear during REM sleep are most like those that are present in individuals who are:

Team "East" is flying from the east coast to the west coast to play, while Team "West" is flying from the west coast to the east coast to play.You would expect:

Stanley was quite involved in a conversation with the student next to him and was not paying attention to his professor's geography lecture.Suddenly, he was aware that the professor had just said, "Stanley, what do you think?" Noticing his name in this way, when he had not been attending to the lecture illustrates:

Theta waves typically occur during which stage of sleep?

Drugs that affect behavior and mental processes through alteration of conscious awareness are generally known as ____________________ drugs.

Sleep deprivation disrupts the ability of animals to regulate internal functions, such as temperature, and it can lead to a considerable loss of weight, despite an increased intake of food.

Over the course of an average night, the amount of time spent in REM sleep steadily decreases and the interval between successive REM states becomes longer and longer.

Outline the stages that occur during a typical sleep cycle and describe the changes in brain wave activity that occur at each stage of the cycle.

Night terrors cause a sleeper to awaken suddenly, in an extreme state of panic, during the first or second REM period of a typical sleep cycle.

The sleep spindles and K-complexes present in Lee's EEG a few minutes ago have been replaced by an increasing amount of delta activity.Lee has shifted from:

The increase in skilled performance shown by highly trained athletes when they are slightly distracted is evidence for the effects of:

The view that suggests dreams are produced as the brain attempts to interpret the spontaneous neural activity that occurs during REM-sleep desires is:

When patients with severe depression are deprived of REM sleep:

The ____________________ refers to the fact that one tends to spend more time dreaming if one does not receive adequate sleep in previous days.

Jillian had a dream in which she fell from an airplane and landed on a cloud that turned into a sandy beach by an orange lake.According to the activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming, the sudden, bizarre changes in settings that took place in Jillian's dream represent:

Which of the following is a dangerous side effect of the drug Ecstasy (also called MDMA)?

Caffeine, nicotine, and amphetamines are ____________________, which are drugs that increase central nervous system activity.