Exam 5: Consciousness-Part C

Alcohol depresses the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA.

The proportion of time spent in stage 4 sleep decreases over the course of a night.

Two dimensions of mind perception are the capacity for experience and the capacity for agency.

Adult chimpanzees can usually recognize themselves in a mirror.

The expectancy theory of alcohol effects predicts that people who believe that alcohol makes them funnier will tell more jokes when intoxicated.

If you wake sleepwalkers,they probably will report that they were dreaming.

We have difficulty remembering most of our dreams several hours after they occur.

When participants were asked not to think about a white bear for 5 minutes,thought suppression was virtually impossible.

People usually report that mind wandering is associated with a temporary increase in happiness.

Marijuana is more hallucinogenic than most drugs in the hallucinogen class.

Research has shown that staring at oneself in a mirror subsequently makes one less likely to offer help to another for a brief period of time.

Valium and Xanax are depressant drugs classified as barbiturates.

Descartes believed that the mind was part of the physical world.

Oxycontin is a narcotic.

The long-term use of sleeping pills to manage chronic insomnia usually is safe and effective.

REM sleep always begins immediately after stage 4 sleep.

According to the activation-synthesis model of dreaming,the mind attempts to make sense of random neural activity that occurs in the brain during sleep.

According to Freud,the latent content of our dreams refers to their hidden meanings.

Hallucinogens produce a strong physical dependence and have serious overdose potential.

The default network is the pattern of brain activity that results when participants are given a new problem to solve.