Exam 4: Consciousness

To treat your sleep problem, you are told that you should avoid alcohol or sleep aids, you should set your alarm clock to wake up at the same time each day, and you should get out of bed if you cannot sleep. You have insomnia.

Sleep may decrease activity of neurons associated with ________, suggesting an important cognitive benefit of sleep.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT concerning what hypnosis can do?

A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The therapist suggests that the "terminal" in the dream indicates an unconscious desire by the client to "terminate" his boss. This desire to terminate the boss, if it exists, would reflect what Freud called the ________ content of the dream.

Our awareness of various external stimuli and internal mental processes, such as making decisions, daydreaming, reflecting, and concentrating, is called ________.

This early researcher did a study that seemed to suggest that people deprived of REM sleep would become paranoid, seemingly mentally ill, from lack of this one stage of sleep.

Upon just waking up, you report a vivid visual event. What term do psychologists use for such phenomena?

The trancelike state in which a subject responds readily to suggestions is ________.

The social-cognitive theory of hypnosis suggests that ________.

People in Stage 3 (N3) sleep ________.

A sleep disorder that may require the use of a machine to force air gently into the nasal passages is called ________.

________ are used today for treating insomnia, epilepsy and other disorders.

Mental activities that differ noticeably from normal waking consciousness are known as ________.

Consciousness is the ________.

Which of the following statements is true concerning cocaine use in the United States?

This early researcher did a study that seemed to suggest that people deprived of REM sleep would become paranoid, seemingly mentally ill, from lack of this one stage of sleep.

Daydreaming, meditation, intoxication, sleep, and hypnosis are all types of ________.

If Corey is using a drug that causes addiction in nearly 99% of those who use it, he is probably ingesting ________.

Melatonin is a ________.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT concerning the concept of sex and dreams?