Exam 6: Consciousness

Nancy participated in a study in which she was asked to listen to two streams of information played over headphones.One stream was played to her left ear and one stream was played to her right ear.She was asked to repeat aloud the information that she heard in her right ear.She participated in:

Tom finds that he feels tired all the time.At meetings, he is constantly nodding off to sleep, and once or twice he has caught himself dozing at the wheel of his car on the drive home.It is likely that Tom is suffering from:

Attention refers to:

The sporadic short bursts of neural activity that are associated with Stage N2 sleep are called:

Luke's EEG pattern shows no signs of neural synchrony.This means Luke is:

It is possible to measure automaticity through a:

A highly skilled professional basketball player is slightly distracted by the child in the crowd with the ladybug hand-puppet.Based on research divided attention, one would predict the basketball player's performance will:

Describe the typical results observed in humans and other animals when they are deprived of sleep for long periods of time.

Describe a dichotic listening experiment and discuss what the results from these types of experiments demonstrate about attention.

Karin broke her back when she slipped on some icy steps, and she was in a tremendous amount of pain while she was in the hospital.To help her deal with the pain during her rehabilitation, her doctor would most likely have prescribed:

Becky has had insomnia for six months, and when she sees her family physician she asks if something can be prescribed to help her fall asleep.If the doctor does prescribe something for Becky's insomnia, it would most likely be:

Define how psychologists use the term attention, and explain how it is adaptive and why it is selective.

Psychologists define ____________________ as the subjective awareness of internal and external events.

According to Freud, the true psychological meaning of dream symbols forms the ____________________ content.

Jill doesn't want to use drugs during childbirth.Another effective pain reduction technique she could try would be:

The evidence linking cell phone use to automobile accidents is:

A driver is going down the road speaking on a cell phone.You could predict the person's:

Mavis had a dream in which a penguin kidnapped her, took her to Italy, and made her eat pistachio ice cream.Mavis tells you that she thinks the dream represents an unconscious desire to cancel her upcoming wedding plans.According to Freud, Mavis' unconscious desire to cancel her upcoming wedding plans would represent:

Problems connected with the amount, timing, and quality of sleep are called:

Lloyd has just had a hypnotic state induced by a hypnotherapist.If an EEG recording were taken, Lloyd's brain wave pattern would show: