MIDTERM 1.3

Question 1

____of the self and thoughts
about one’s experiences

Answer 1

Awareness

Question 2

the physiological state of being engaged with the environment

Answer 2

Arousal

Question 3

Involves controlled processing in which individuals actively focus their efforts on attaining a goal; the most alert state of consciousness.

Answer 3

Higher-Level Consciousness

Question 4

Includes automatic processing that requires little attention, as well as daydreaming

Answer 4

Lower-Level Consciousness

Question 5

Can be produced by drugs, trauma, fatigue, possibly hypnosis, and sensory deprivation

Answer 5

Altered State of Consciousness

Question 6

Can occur when people are awake, as well as when they are sleeping and dreaming

Answer 6

Subconscious Awareness

Question 7

Freud’s belief that some unconscious thoughts are too laden with anxiety and other negative emotions for consciousness to admit them

Answer 7

No Awareness (unconscious)

Question 8

periodic physiological fluctuations in the body

Answer 8

Biological Rhythms

Question 9

24-hr physiological cycle in humans

Answer 9

Circadian Rhythm

Question 10

Sleep loss; being deprived of needed amounts of sleep

Answer 10

Sleep deprivation

Question 11

Excessive daytime sleepiness

Answer 11

Hypersomnia

Question 12

Brief shift in brain activity to pattern normally recorded during sleep

Answer 12

Microsleep

Question 13

Confusion, disorientation, delusions, and hallucinations that occur because of sleep loss

Answer 13

Sleep-deprivation psychosis

Question 14

Daily rhythms of sleep and waking

Answer 14

Sleep patterns

Question 15

Brain-wave machine; amplifies and records electrical activity in the brain

Answer 15

Electroencephalograph (EEG)

Question 16

Small, fast waves associated with alertness and wakefulness

Answer 16

Beta waves:

Question 17

Large, slow waves associated with relaxation and falling asleep

Answer 17

◦ Alpha waves

Question 18

amino acid (chemical) that increases serotonin levels and therefore leads to sleepiness

Answer 18

Tryptophan

Question 19

Freudian belief that many dreams are
expressions of unconscious desires

Answer 19

Wish fulfillment:

Question 20

Images in dreams that have a deeper symbolic meaning

Answer 20

Dream symbols

Question 21

Obvious, visible meaning of dream

Answer 21

◦ Manifest

Question 22

Hidden symbolic meaning of dream

Answer 22

Latent

Question 23

Substance capable of altering attention, judgment, memory, time sense, self-control, emotion, or perception

Answer 23

Psychoactive drug:

Question 24

Substance that increases activity in body and nervous system

Answer 24

Stimulant

Question 25

Substance that decreases activity in body and nervous system

Answer 25

Depressant

Question 26

either a physical or a psychological dependence, or both, on a drug

Answer 26

Addiction

Question 27

Reduction in body’s response to a drug

Answer 27

Drug tolerance:

Question 28

Physical illness and discomfort following withdrawal of a drug

Answer 28

Withdrawal symptoms

Question 29

Loss of contact with reality because of amphetamine use; user tends to have paranoid delusions

Answer 29

Amphetamine psychosis

Question 30

(inability to feel pleasure): Common after cocaine withdrawal

Answer 30

Anhedonia

Question 31

Overindulgence in caffeine

Answer 31

Caffeinism

Question 32

Shortsighted thinking and perception that occurs during alcohol intoxication

Answer 32

Alcohol myopia