Exam 5: Consciousness-Part C

Emotions felt during dreams usually are less intense than the same emotions experienced when awake.

A 55-year-old overweight man would be considered at risk for developing narcolepsy.

One should only wake a sleepwalker in life-threatening situations.

While in the short term it is difficult to suppress a specific thought,in the long term that thought will occur less often,even after one stops trying to suppress it.

Morphine mimics the body's endogenous opioids,which are neurotransmitters that alleviate pain.

Infants under a year old usually cannot recognize themselves in a mirror.

If less and less of a pain medication to produce the same amount of relief is required,a tolerance for the drug has been acquired.

Performance on the dichotic listening task illustrates the selectivity of consciousness.

Prolonged use of Ecstasy has been shown to damage dopaminergic neurons.

There is scientific evidence to suggest that factors presented outside of conscious awareness can influence subsequent behavior.

People who thrash around in sleep are probably dreaming.

Brain scans (fMRIs)have shown that the amygdala is quite active during REM sleep.

There is no existing scientific evidence that supports Freud's contention that we sometimes dream about suppressed thoughts.

In a narcoleptic attack,a person engaged in waking activities will collapse into a deep,slow-wave sleep.

Psychologists have yet to discover a psychoactive drug used by people that rats will refuse to self-administer.

Staying awake for more than 120 consecutive hours produces long-term deficits in brain functioning that cannot be overcome by subsequently catching up on one's sleep.

Consciousness can be compared with a movie streaming live on computer screens for the entire world to see.

Mind wandering is the experience of having stimulus-dependent thoughts.

Drug addiction is synonymous with physical dependence on a drug.

The cocktail-party phenomenon describes the increased likelihood that people will hear their name mentioned from across the room,even when engaged in another conversation at a large and noisy event.