Exam 4: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

Ryan's excessive beer consumption is marked by tolerance.Abruptly stopping his beer drinking results in symptoms of withdrawal and an overwhelming urge to drink again.Ryan most clearly suffers from

About one-third of a second before participants in one study decided to move their wrists,their ________ indicated a readiness potential to move.

Chronic sleep debt is most likely to promote

The ability to focus his attention on his arm and shoulder movements during his golf swings enabled Jason to learn more effective skills for both chip shots and putting.This best illustrates the value of

Which theory most clearly emphasizes our mind's top-down control of dream content without proposing an adaptive function of dreams?

People who use ________ are often able to discontinue their drug use without professional help.

If asked to watch a video and press a key each time a black-shirted player passed a basketball,most research participants remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman strolling across the video screen.This illustrated

REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because

Compared with evening-loving "night owls," those who are morning types tend to perform ________ in school and tend to be ________ vulnerable to depression.

Women who have been drinking alcohol become ________ disposed to casual sex,and men who have been drinking become ________ disposed to casual sex.

Sleep spindles are characteristic of ________ sleep.

As drug users experience neuroadaptation,they demonstrate signs of

A rewarding consequence of cigarette smoking is that it reduces

Which of the following is most likely to be associated with slow-wave sleep?

Research indicates that total time spent in REM sleep is especially high in

The simultaneous processing of information on many parallel tracks is most closely associated with

Compared with nonsmokers,smokers experience

The school of thought in psychology that turned away from the study of consciousness during the first half of the last century was

Felix was so preoccupied with his girlfriend's good looks that he failed to perceive any of her less admirable characteristics.This best illustrates an unfortunate consequence of

When heavy coffee drinkers skip their usual caffeine,they experience the effects of ________ when a headache strikes.