Exam 5: Consciousness

Drugs derived from the opium poppy are called ________.

According to the activation-synthesis theory, the fact that our dream has any coherent story or focus is largely the result of ________.

Because Alzheimer's disease affects the brain's level of acetylcholine, what sleep-related impact are sufferers of this disease likely to experience?

Jared is attending a comedy hypnosis show with his girlfriend, and he agrees to come up on stage and be hypnotised by the performer. While he is in a trance, he is given an instruction that when he wakes up he is to flap his arms like a chicken and grunt like a gorilla as he runs through the crowd. Because Jared is usually a rather quiet and laid back person, what do you think is most likely to happen when he "wakes up" from his trance?

Morphine is classified as a ________ because it relieves pain and induces sleep.

During what stage of sleep are we most likely to experience a vivid dream?

Paulette has been asleep for only a few minutes. Her brain activity is made up primarily of theta waves. Which sleep stage is Paulette currently in?

Which of the following conditions would you least like the pilot flying your airplane to have?

A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's ________.

Nicotine is classified as a