Consciousness Concepts
This disorder involves recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia
The distinction between manifest content and latent content is central to ______________ theory of dreams.
What is Freudʻs Wish Fullfillment theory? (Acceptable- freudian, psychodynamic)
The experience of physical pain following discontinuance of a psychoactive drug best illustrates
What is withdrawal?
After physicians are given case information and an autopsy report, they are very likely to presume that they could have figured out the cause of death with the case information alone. This tendency to believe that one would have foreseen something, after learning of an outcome, is called:
Hindsight bias
Sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur and eyes move quickly
What is REM Sleep
Donna remembers a dream in which a car was parked in front of her house and a man with a baseball bat kept getting in and out of the car. According to Sigmund Freud's theory, the specific dream details that Donna remembers are called the _____ content.
What is manifest content
Caffeine, Cocaine, Nicotine, Methamphetamine fall into this category of drug
What are stimulants?
Stacey believes that because children are generally more impulsive than adults, they will be more likely than adults to scream when frustrated by a researcher in a laboratory setting. Stacey's prediction regarding anger management is an example of
A hypothesis (testable prediction)
This is a form of inattentional blindness, when someone fails to notice changes in the environment
What is Change Blindness
Bright light affects our feelings of sleepiness by increasing or decreasing the production of
What is melatonin?
SM, also known as "The Woman with No Fear" has a very rare condition caused by the deterioration of the amygdala. Psychologists have learned about the amygdalaʻs role in fear. What type of research method is being described?
What is Case Study
Those working in the interdisciplinary field of ___ study the brain activity associated with the mental processes of perception, thinking, memory and language.
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
The sleep stage in which the "falling" sensation is most likely to occur
What is Stage 1
The appearance of sleep spindles on a sleeper’s EEG recording would indicate they are in this sleep stage
Stage 2
This substance results in slowed neural processing, memory disruption and reduced self-awareness and self-control.
What is alcohol?
Natural, opiate-like neurotransmitters linked to pain control are called
What are Endorphins?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere (Hint: a gorilla passing through a video)
What is Inattentional Blindness
Susan has been prescribed medication to keep her awake and less likely to fall asleep behind the wheel of her car. She most likely suffers from this sleep disorder
What is narcolepsy?
During _____ sleep you may experience images that resemble hallucinations.
What is N-REM 1? (ie hypnagogic sensations)
the diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the use to take larger and large doses before experiencing the drug's effect.
What is tolerance
In the early 1800's Franz Gall proposed his theory of ______, which is the study of bumps on the skull that could reveal a person's mental abilities and character traits.
What is Phrenology?