Exam 6: Consciousness

The cocktail party phenomenon refers to the ability to:

A rat will press a response bar hundreds of times if bar pressing results in the administration of cocaine.Apparently, the pleasurable and reinforcing aspects of the drug are due to cocaine's effect on:

The general term ____________________ is used to refer to abnormal sleep disturbances, such as nightmares, night terrors, and sleepwalking.

You dreamed about riding a train into a tunnel.According to the activation-synthesis view, your dream is:

A person who is physically dependent on a drug will experience ____________________ when he or she stops taking the drug.

The disorder in which a person has sudden periods of extreme sleepiness in which he or she will collapse and enter REM is called:

Sleep spindles are:

When subjects who take part in a dichotic listening task are given a surprise test about information in the unattended message at the end of the experiment, they usually remember most of the key details because this information was processed subliminally during the task.

An EEG is recording Duane's brain activity while he sleeps.He has just entered Stage N2 sleep when there is a sudden crash from the hallway.It is likely that:

Which of the following is NOT a depressant?

Milton is hooked up to an EEG in a sleep lab.As the researcher watches the EEG recording, alpha waves appear.Based on this information, the researcher can conclude that Milton:

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

Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which a person:

The term ____________________ is used to refer to drugs that slow the ongoing activity of the central nervous system.

One piece of evidence that suggests the survival value or adaptation theory of sleep may partially explain why we sleep is the finding that:

Wilson took part in a research study in which, for three nights, he was awakened each time he entered REM-sleep.Now that Wilson is back at home, it is likely that he will:

Freud searched for the symbolic meaning of dreams.He described this symbolic aspect as the:

Andy had a dream in which a blue dog held him up with a gun.Andy tells you that he thinks the dream represents an unconscious desire to cancel his upcoming wedding plans.According to Freud, the blue dog with the gun in Andy's dream would represent:

Psilocybin is a drug that comes from:

Outline the effects of hypnosis that have been supported in scientific studies and those that have failed to be supported.