Pay Attention
Sleeping
Dream, dream, dream
Psychoactive Drugs
Miscellaneous
100
The fact that Steven is able to hear his son call him, over all the other playground noises, illustrates this psychological concept
What is selective attention
100
Physiological functions tend to rise and fall along a 24-hour cycle known as this
What is circadian rhythm
100
According to this theorist, dreams are a way to gratify unconscious wishes and desires
Who is Freud
100
Psychoactive drugs altering conscious awareness and therefore affect both of these processes
What are behavior and mental processes
100
2Ben feels his eyelids start to sag and he feels very relaxed as he stares at a coin on the table. He is willing to obey commands and might report reduced pain perception. Ben’s highly suggestible state is due to this
What is hypnosis
200
Stanley was quite involved in a conversation with the student next to him and was not paying attention to his professor’s geography lecture. Suddenly, he was aware that the professor had just said, “Stanley, what do you think?” Noticing his name in this way, when he had not been attending to the lecture illustrates this phenomenon
What is the cocktail party effect
200
The high-amplitude, slow waves that are associated with being in a relaxed, drowsy state are called this
What are alpha waves
200
Freud searched for the symbolic meaning of dreams. He described this symbolic aspect as this
What is latent content
200
When one requires increased amounts of the drug to produce the same physical and behavioral effects, then one is experiencing this
What is drug tolerance
200
A particular string of words or sounds that one repeats during meditation is called this
What is mantra
300
This task is used to investigate processes in attention
What is dichotic listening
300
The low-amplitude, irregular waves that occur during Stage 1 sleep are called this
What are theta waves
300
Andy had a dream in which a blue dog held him up with a gun. Andy tells you that he thinks the dream represents an unconscious desire to cancel his upcoming wedding plans. According to Freud, the blue dog with the gun in Andy’s dream would represent this
What is the manifest content of the dream
300
Drugs that slow the ongoing activity of the central nervous system are called this
What are depressants
400
Rebecca is just learning to use her new graphing calculator. She needs to refer to the manual frequently and think about every step. As she becomes more familiar with the way in which her calculator functions, pressing the correct sequence of keys should become this kind of process
What is automatic
400
These are the sporadic short bursts of neural activity that are associated with Stage 2 sleep
What are sleep spindles
400
The view that suggests dreams are produced as the brain attempts to interpret the spontaneous neural activity that occurs during REM-sleep desires is called this
What is activation-synthesis hypothesis
400
Drugs that produce fractured perceptions are called this
What are hallucinogens
400
Research conducted by Cooper and Cooper (2002) in which participants watched an episode of The Simpsons showed an increase in participants’ thirst due throughout the episode. This was accomplished through use of this technique
What is subliminal messaging
500
The attentional problem that is associated with a tendency to ignore things that appear toward the left side of the body is known as this
What is visual neglect
500
The theory of sleep that suggests the purpose of sleep is to allow time for the body and mind to recover from the activities of the day is called this
What is restoration and repair theory
500
Terrifying experiences that cause panic and sudden awakening from non-REM sleep are known as this
What are night terrors
500
189. The part of the brain typically damaged after one uses the drug Ecstasy (also called MDMA) is involved in the production of this neurotransmitter
What is serotonin
500
The view that consciousness flows as a stream or river was proposed by this person
Who is William James
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