Exam 9: Variations in Consciousness Part 1

If you normally sleep eight hours each night, and last night you only slept for six hours, which stage of sleep would be MOST affected by the loss of total sleep time?

The idea that hypnotized persons are acting in the manner they believe a hypnotized person would is the basic tenet behind the

The role-playing theory of hypnosis offered by Barber and Spanos suggests that the hypnotized subject

If a college student who is struggling to keep from flunking out of school dreams of winning the "student of the year award," this dream would be MOST consistent with which theory of dreaming?

Insomnia is best defined as referring to

Differences between a REM dream and a non-REM dream include

While serving as a subject in a laboratory sleep study for several nights, Steve was awakened whenever he entered REM sleep. As the number of nights in the study increased, Steve

The brain structure that results in continuous sleep when severely damaged and produces arousal and alertness when electrically stimulated is the

A family of practices that train attention to heighten awareness and bring mental process under greater voluntary control is known as

Anne has noticed that for the past three weeks she is unable to sleep for more than five hours at a time, even though she used to regularly get 8 hours of sleep per night. She wakes early in the morning and just can't fall back to sleep once this happens. It appears that Anne has developed

Circadian rhythms have been shown to influence all of the following EXCEPT

Which of the following statements about cultural differences in sleep is NOT accurate?

The idea that one's consciousness continually changes, fluctuates, and wanders characterizes William James's concept that consciousness is

Sara had been asleep for just over 2 hours when she suddenly let out a piercing cry and sat straight up in her bed. When her parents asked what had scared her, she really couldn't remember, and she soon fell back to sleep. From this description, it appears that Sara experienced

Adam slept peacefully through most of the night and then at 5:00 a.m. he woke up sobbing. When his parents asked what had scared him, he told them that monsters came through the wall to attack him, and no matter how fast he ran he couldn't get away. Even though his parents told him it was just a bad dream, Adam was afraid to go back to sleep. From this description, it appears that Adam experienced

Research concerning the content of dreams has shown that most dreams are

Which of the following does NOT belong with the other three?

The evidence from numerous studies on the effectiveness of melatonin indicates that

Signals sent from the suprachiasmatic nucleus to the pineal gland have been implicated in

The theory of hypnosis that suggests that hypnosis is not an altered state of consciousness is the