Our awareness of various mental processes, such as making decisions, daydreaming, reflecting, and concentrating, is called ________.
consciousness
100
________, a hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms, is secreted by the pineal gland.
melatonin
100
What do most dreams reflect?
events of everyday life
100
Hypnosis cannot give this to people.
Superhuman strength
100
Nicotine is a ________.
stimulant
200
The word "consciousness" has many different meanings, but most psychologists define it in terms of _______.
attention
200
To treat your sleep problem, you are told that you should not nap, you should set your alarm clock to wake up at the same time each day, and you should get out of bed if you cannot sleep. What sleep disorder have you been experiencing?
Insomnia
200
The __________ of a dream is the actual dream itself.
manifest content
200
These type of people are more susceptible to hypnosis.
daydreamers or people with vivid imagination.
200
Russell needs more of the drug he has been using to get the normal high he got when he first started. Russell is experiencing ________.
drug tolerance
300
__________ is the only non-altered state of consciousness.
waking consciousness
300
short, rhythmic bursts of brainwave activity that appear during Stage 2 sleep are called _________.
sleep spindles
300
Men across various cultures tend to have more ______ in their dreams than do women.
physical aggression
300
One major way hypnosis can help someone
Relieve pain by removing conscious attention from the pain
300
Benzedrine, methedrine, and dexedrine are all ________.
amphetamines
400
Sometimes being in an altered state may mean being in a state of _______ alertness.
increased. (being under the influence of a stimulant).
400
You are watching sleep researchers monitor the sleep of a normal adult. The participant is hooked up to an EEG. What brain waves would you observe as the person becomes drowsy and then enters the first stage of sleep?
beta eventually replaced by alpha
400
A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's ________.
latent content
400
Hypnosis cannot cause people ____________.
Regress back to childhood or to some "past life"
400
Jackie used Ecstasy while she was in college, but now that she has a government job she has avoided using any recreational drugs. Although she had no problem quitting, she still finds that every now and then she gets a strong craving to use Ecstasy again. Her craving is most likely the result of ____________.
psychological dependence
500
The most common altered state people experience is ________.
Sleep
500
The restorative theory views sleep as __________.
helping the body repair the wear and tear of the day's events.
500
According to the ___________, a dream is the brain's attempt to make sense of, or provide an explanation for, random signals emitted from the brainstem during sleep.
activation synthesis hypothesis
500
This theory assumes that hypnotized people are not in an altered state but are merely playing the role expected of them in the situation.