Exam 6: Consciousness

While the social/cognitive process theory argues that ___,the dissociation theory believes that ___.

What is it called when a person needs to consume more of the drug over time to receive the same effect?

Information of which you are currently unaware but which you can recall quite easily is said to be in the ___.

Nagesh,a new mother from Kenya,keeps her baby with her at all times.Sally is a new mother from Canada who puts her baby down for regular naps.Which of the following best describes the likely sleep pattern of the two babies?

How do the effects of sleep deprivation on the performance of complex logical tasks compare to the effects of sleep deprivation on simple,monotonous tasks?

Which neuroscientist is most closely associated with split-brain studies? What did these studies demonstrate regarding consciousness?

Which of the following is an example of an implicit memory?

Which category of psychoactive drugs below is correctly matched with its effects on thought and behaviour?

A powerful type of amphetamine that has experienced a recent surge in popularity is ___.

Anna's husband is about to walk the dogs but can't find the leashes.Knowing she was the last to walk the dogs,he asks her where she put them.Anna thinks back to when she came back inside with the dogs,how it was raining so she had to put the umbrella away.And then she remembers - the leashes are with the umbrella.At what level of awareness was this information for Anna,prior to her husband's question?

Shelley is being arrested for breaking in to a jewellery store and stealing all their diamonds.In her defense,she says that she was hypnotized into doing it.What is wrong with Shelley's story?

If children are going to wet the bed they most commonly do so in Stage 4 of sleep.

Minsun lived in an underground shelter for four days during a severe hurricane.When she was in the shelter,her body's "day" shifted to ___ hours,but once she could emerge from the shelter her day shifted to ___ hours.

Why is REM sleep referred to as paradoxical sleep?

A team of researchers examines the time spent in REM sleep and in each of the NREM stages among a large sample of adults ranging in age from 18 to 70 years old.The researchers compute three correlation coefficients: Correlation A,between participant age and total time spent in NREM stages 1 and 2; Correlation B,between participant age and total time spent in REM sleep; and,finally,Correlation C,between participant age and total time spent in NREM stages 3 and 4.Of these correlations,which should be the weakest? Which should be the strongest?

Due to an increased THC content,the marijuana available today is more likely to lead to a pattern of addiction than marijuana available in the past.

Your text states that,"many people on a marijuana high fail to remember information,especially recently learned material." Drawing on your knowledge of the brain,you might hypothesize that this impairment reflects a potential effect of marijuana on a structure in the brain called the ___.

Studies of inattentional blindness show that

If either the intralaminar or midline nuclei of the thalamus are broadly damaged,people lose consciousness and enter a deep coma.

A baby must develop a sense of ___ to be fully aware of him/herself as a separate being from others.