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Our moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment is called

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consciousness

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Selective attention refers to the process that focuses awareness on some stimuli to

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the exclusion of others

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An electroencephalograph (EEG) is an example of a

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physiological measures

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Consciousness is considered dynamic and ever-changing because

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people drift between states of consciousness throughout the day

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The most common method for studying consciousness is

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self-report

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True or false: Physiological measures can tell us what a person is experiencing subjectively.

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false

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An electroencephalograph (EEG) can be used to identify the different stages of

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sleep

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Although behavioural measures are objective, they still require us to

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infer the person’s state of mind

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Consciousness is considered self reflective because

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the mind is aware of its own consciousness

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The rouge test is an example of a

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behavioural measure fo conciousness

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The correspondence between bodily processes and mental states is established by

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physiological measures

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The three levels of awareness are

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the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind

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Events that cannot be brought into conscious awareness under ordinary circumstances are called

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unconscious mental events

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Which of the following groups of researchers were the FIRST to criticize Freud’s work?

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Behaviourists

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According to cognitive psychologists, the conscious use of attention and effort is called

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controlled processing.

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Some activities involve

__________ processing which occurs without conscious awareness or effort.

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automatic

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Thoughts and perceptions that we are currently aware of are called

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conscious mental events

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Freud’s notion of unconscious influence

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has been supported by modern research

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According to cognitive psychologists, the performance of a task without conscious awareness is called

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automatic processing

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Which type of processing is MOST flexible?

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controlled processing

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In the study conducted by Chartrand et al., it was found that the participants who were exposed to positive nouns experienced

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more positive emotions

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Visual agnosia is an

__________ to visually recognize objects.

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inability

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Which type of processing increases our chances of finding new ways to approach problems?

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controlled

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Automatic processing facilitates

___________attention which allows us to attend to and perform more than one activity at the same time.

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divided

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The visual pathway linked to memory and emotion is
consciously accessible
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A rare condition in which an individual is perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field but respond to some visual stimulus is known as
blindsight
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Neuroscientists conceptualize the mind as a __________ workspace where a collection of largely separate but interacting information-processing modules perform tasks in parallel and somewhat independently but with crosstalk.
global
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An inability to visually recognize objects is called
visual agnosia
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Every 24 hours our bodily functions undergo rhythmic changes that affect our alertness and ready our passage back and forth between waking consciousness and sleep. This process is called the
circadian rhythm
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Which of the following is the regulator of the circadian rhythms?
The suprachiasmatic nucleus
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Research suggests that there are ____ main visual pathways in the brain.
2
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Candice has left-hemisphere brain damage, consequently she is blind in the right half of her visual field. Most likely, Candice has a rare condition called
blindsight
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Which of the following applies to the concept of consciousness as a global workspace?
Consciousness is the unified activity of multiple modules in different areas of the brain.
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Which of the following is an example of a circadian rhythm?
A person's temperature changes, certain hormones are secreted and other bodily changes occur over a 24-hour period
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Melatonin is
a hormone with a relaxing effect on the body
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Most circadian rhythms are regulated by the _______ nuclei.
suprachiasmatic
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In experimental situations where people have been kept in darkness, most participants drifted into a natural wake-sleep cycle, called a free-________ circadian rhythm that is longer than 24 hours.
running
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A rare condition in which an individual is perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field but respond to some visual stimulus is known as_______
blindsight
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According to Smith's research, individuals from regions with _____ climates exhibit more morningness than students from those with climates with the opposite weather pattern.
warmer
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Neuroscientists conceptualize the mind as a _________workspace where a collection of largely separate but interacting information-processing modules perform tasks in parallel and somewhat independently but with crosstalk.
global
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A hormone secreted by the pineal gland that has a relaxing effect on the body is
melatonin
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The term_________affective disorder describes a cyclic tendency to become psychologically depressed during certain times of the year.
seasonal
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According to Smith, students from which of the following countries are MORE likely to take morning classes?
India, Columbia, Spain
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How much of a typical person's life is spent asleep?
1/3
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As a person enters stage 2 of sleep, their brain-wave pattern consists of
sleep spindles
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People experience less jet lag when flying _____ than when flying ____.
west;east
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True or false: Circadian rhythms do not regulate sleep directly.
true
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Theta waves are best described as _____ relative to alpha waves.
slower
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Delta waves occur during
stage 3 and 4
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The cycle of sleep stages is
1-2-3-4-3-2
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What is the physiological arousal level during REM sleep?
The same as daytime levels
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Which of the following is an example of REM sleep paralysis?
Muscles twitch, but in effect the person is paralyzed and unable to move.
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Each cycle through the sleep stages takes about ______ minutes
90
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REM sleep_______________ is a state where your body is highly aroused, yet it looks like you are sleeping peacefully because there is so little movement.
paralysis
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Which age group averages between 7 and 8 hours of sleep per night?
19 to 30 year olds
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Approximately how long is a sleep cycle?
90 minutes
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Which of the following describes the brain structures involved in falling asleep?
The basal forebrain
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Which age group averages just under 6 hours of sleep per night?
Elderly adults
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In studies on sleep deprivation, the typical sleep-deprived person functioned
only as well as someone in the bottom 9 percent of non-deprived participants
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Which of the following brain structures are involved in sleep?
The reticular formation The pons The primary motor cortex
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Which of the following models of sleep relates the purpose of sleep to physical and mental fatigue?
The restoration model
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What is the most common sleep disorder?
Insomnia
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Extreme daytime sleepiness and sudden uncontrollable sleep attacks that can last from less than a minute to an hour is called
narcolepsy.
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During which stage is sleepwalking most likely to occur?
Stage 3 or 4
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What percentage of adults sleepwalk?
5
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What is the percentage of adults who suffer from night terrors?
1 to 2 percent
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What percentage of children sleepwalk?
10 to 30 percent
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The | __________state is a transitional state from wakefulness through early stage 2 sleep. Visual hallucinations often occur.
hypnagogic
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Western cultures think of dreaming
as interesting but not significant
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Which of the following were findings that Hall and Van de Castle (1966) discovered in coding dreams?
80% of dream reports involved negative emotions. Most dreams involve people that we know.

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