Week 11 - Sleeping And Consciousness

Question 1

Qualitatively different patterns of subjective experience are called

Answer 1

States of consciousness

Question 2

The cognitive unconscious primarily includes ?

Answer 2

Information processing mechanisms that operate outside of awareness

Question 3

The cognitive unconscious is akin to freuds notion of?

Answer 3

Dynamically unconscious

Question 4

According to what was States in the textbook, I could loose ________ and still remain conscious?

Answer 4

An entire cerebral hemisphere

Question 5

According to the biological view, during NREM sleep, I am….

Answer 5

Forming and consolidating memories

Question 6

During REM sleep, I am

Answer 6

Erasing memories

Question 7

Olivia is participating in a study that is researching the stages of sleep. The researchers are probably using…

Answer 7

EEG

Question 8

I wake up from a dream gasping for air. My wife asks what my dream was about. She is asking for its…

Answer 8

Manifest content

Question 9

Professor black believes that dreams are essentially the cortex trying to interpret the random neural signals from the midbrain. It is most likely that dr black is a ____________ researcher

Answer 9

Biologically oriented

Question 10

Pat is dreaming about a stranger who is carrying a weapon. According to research on gender and dream content, it is most likely that Pat is…

Answer 10

Male

Question 11

________ are rapid and operate simultaneously, whereas _______ have limited capacity and are slower

Answer 11

Unconscious processes; conscious processes

Question 12

Deepest stage of sleep in which sleep walking my occurs?

Answer 12

Delta

Question 13

As defined by Freud, ______ mental processes are not presently conscious, but could be readily brought to consciousness if the need arouse

Answer 13

Preconscious

Question 14

The alertness component of consciousness appears to be regulated by

Answer 14

A portion of the amygdala