Exam 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States

Jennifer has been studying day and night for so many weeks that she is chronically sleep deprived. She is likely to experience all of the following symptoms EXCEPT:

Does hypnosis increase the accuracy of memory? Explain your answer.

Chronic insomnia affects about ________ of all adults.

________ is a sleep disorder involving sudden and unpredictable daytime attacks of sleepiness or lapses into REM sleep.

Research in sleep laboratories reveals that the slow, rolling eye movements that characterize the onset of sleep continue throughout the night.

An EEG is recording Joe's brain while he sleeps. The pattern of brain waves exhibits occasional short bursts of rapid, high-peaking waves, and he isn't disturbed by some of the noise the experimenter in the sleep lab makes during this time.

Match each function with the hormone that controls it. -Synthetic derivatives of the hormone testosterone that are often used to increase muscle mass and strength.

A weakness of the activation-synthesis theory of dreaming is that:

College students who reported being able to regress into previous lives under hypnosis were unable to describe the money used in their "past life" community.

Some of the world's most serious industrial accidents, including Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez disaster have in common the speculation that key personnel suffered from:

The effects of stimulant drugs include all of the following EXCEPT:

Stefania Follini spent four months in a New Mexico cave as part of a study on biological rhythms. During that time, she tended to stay awake for about ________ hours and then sleep for ________ hours.

The amino acid tryptophan promotes the onset of sleep.

Match each description with the appropriate term. -Dreaming during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming and may believe that he or she is conscious.

Describe the common effects of LSD.

Which of the following is NOT true according to Freud?

Stefania Follini spent four months in a New Mexico cave as part of a study on biological rhythms. What was her sleep-wake cycle like during this study? How long did Stefania think that she had been in the cave?

Describe the common effects of barbiturates.

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Consciousness is defined as an awareness of oneself and the environment.