Exam 5: Mind, Consciousness, and Alternate States

A new roommate confides that she suffers from somnambulism. You should expect that she is likely to

An executive's company requires her to engage in a lot of long-distance travel. At first, after a long trip she would experience fatigue, uncontrollable sleepiness, and a disruption of her sleep-wake schedule that would continue for days. She probably was experiencing

Which type of drugs lead to the most dramatic changes in consciousness?

Research on hypnosis has generally supported the conclusion that

Imagine that you have received a book about plants for your birthday. As you thumb through it, you come across a plant that apparently produces euphoria, a sense of well-being, and depending on the context, fear, anxiety, and confusion. Its active ingredient is THC and it has psychoactive effects. Because of a course you took at school, you recognize this plant as

Researchers who have looked at changes with age in total amounts of daily REM sleep and NREM sleep have found that

You see a story on television about a woman who stops breathing hundreds of times during the course of the night. Without being told, you realize that this woman suffers from a condition that is technically known as

A pilot flies regularly between Japan and California. He also flies the San Francisco to Los Angeles route in California. The pilot will experience the greatest symptoms of jet lag after flying

Characterized by periodic sleep during the daytime, ________ is a sleep disorder that is quite often combined with ________, a complete loss of muscle control that causes sufferers to fall down suddenly.

The serious addiction that often accompanies stimulant use

An elementary school student is putting together facts for a brochure on alcohol use. The student should check his facts, however, because it is NOT true that

In research described by your authors, participants were asked to complete a specific task. In some cases, they were told that they would complete this task again after some sleep. In other cases they were not told, but allowed to sleep. In still a third group, they were not warned about taking the test again and were not given a chance to sleep. What was the task that these research participants completed?

At a sleep disorder clinic, a man learns that he has sleep apnea. When he asks for more information, he is likely to be told all of the following EXCEPT that

One difference between the Freudian approach to dream interpretation and the interpretation made by non-Western groups such as the people of the Ingessana Hills, along the border of Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the Kalapalo Indians of central Brazil, is that the latter groups

Sigmund Freud described dreams in all of the following ways EXCEPT as

The sleep spindles that occur during sleep are minute bursts of electrical activity of ________ cycles per second.

The small adjustment that is necessary to help people synchronize the human internal "pacemaker" with a 24-hour cycle is brought about by

Along with other depressants, alcohol appears to affect ________ activity.

Chemicals in nicotine stimulate receptors that make you feel good whenever you have done something rewarding.