Exam 5: Consciousness

Freud called the hidden meaning of a dream its _______ content.

What term do psychologists use to designate our personal awareness of feelings,sensations,and thoughts?

Opiates bind to receptors for ____________________,which are neurotransmitters that reduce pain and produce pleasurable sensations.This explains why opiates have a similar effect.

There is hope for recovery if the patient improves within the first few months of persistent vegetative state (PVS),but the chances for recovery decrease sharply between 6 and 12 months

The deepest stage of sleep is __________ sleep.

Scientists are skeptical about the psychoanalytic theory of dreaming because the _____ of a dream is entirely subject to interpretation.

According to the activation-synthesis theory of dreaming,the source of a dream is neuronal firing in the

Melatonin treatments have been useful in the treatment of

Dr.Sanchez is a psychoanalyst who is interested in analyzing dreams using Freud's perspective.As a psychoanalyst,he focuses on interpreting the __________ content of his clients' dreams in an attempt to understand their unconscious wishes and thoughts that may be expressed symbolically in their dreams.

John will likely experience REM rebound tonight if he

_____ is a disorder of consciousness in which an individual may open the eyes and exhibit sleep-wake cycles but show no specific signs of consciousness.

The low-voltage brain waves produced during relaxed wakefulness or the twilight stage between waking and sleeping are called __________ waves.

Interpretation of the ________ content of a dream is expected to reveal the ________ content.

During which sleep stage do sleep spindles first occur?

When he was a young child,Jerry would sometimes wake in the middle of the night screaming.He wouldn't remember having a bad dream,but remembers experiencing raw panic.Jerry most likely had

A weakness of the _______________ theory is that there is little to no evidence that the brain can find solutions to our concerns while we sleep.

Which device would a sleep researcher use to monitor a sleeping person's brain waves?

Short,rhythmic bursts of brainwave activity that appear during Stage 2 sleep are called

Which sleep disorder involves people literally acting out their dreams?

Explain the two theories for why we sleep described in your textbook.Provide evidence which supports each theory and examples.