Exam 10: A--Consciousness

People who were born blind do not have visual images in their dreams.

The increased motor cortex activity prior to the start of the movement is known as the ____________________.

Dreaming occurs only during REM sleep.

Hypnosis can be used as a method for reducing the emotional response to pain.

____________________ is a condition in which people have trouble breathing while they sleep.

People with ____________________ experience sudden attacks of extreme sleepiness in the middle of the day.

Larger animal species need more sleep than smaller species.

Phi effect patients insist relatives and close friends are unfamiliar, and that their relatives are impostors who just resemble their relatives.

Stage 2 of sleep is marked by ____________________, waves of activity at about 12-14 per second.

A sleep disorder is a condition that occurs within our sleep patterns. Insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy represent three varying types of sleep disorders. Give a brief description of all three conditions.

People traveling east suffer more serious jet lag than do people traveling west.

Although a person's brain is quite active during REM sleep, the large muscles of the body are deeply relaxed.

Nightmares occur mostly during ____________________ sleep, night terrors occur during ____________________ sleep.

Bob seems to be deeply asleep, yet his brain waves resemble those of an alert, waking state. Bob is now in ____________________ sleep and just before this he was in ____________________.

The area of the brain known to generate the body's circadian rhythm is the ____________________.

The ____________________ experience is the sense that an event is uncannily familiar.

People experiencing the ____________________ would likely report seeing a light moving even though there is no moving light.

The research evidence supports the claim that hypnosis can help people accurately recall forgotten memories from childhood.

A person is suffering from ____________________ if he or she consistently feels tired and inefficient during the day due to lack of sleep.

The subjective experience of perceiving oneself and other entities is known as ____________________.