The Study of Consciousness
True or False: Daydreaming can be considered an altered state of consciousness.
True.
The production of what hormone can be affected by late night phone use?
Melatonin
What sleep disorder makes it extremely difficult or impossible to fall asleep and is the most common type of sleep disorder.
Insomnia
Which theory believes that dreams are a result of wishes?
Freudian Theory
What is the system that provides data about something happening in the body?
Biofeedback
What are memories called we cannot access?
Unconscious
What is the biological clock that includes a sequence of bodily changes such as body temperature, blood pressure, sleepiness and wakefulness through the day?
Circadian Rhythms
What disorder causes you to act out your dreams while you are asleep?
REM Behavior Disorder
Dreams occur in this stage of sleep?
REM
What is the forgetfulness of information called during or after hypnosis?
Posthypnotic Amnesia
What level of consciousness allows you to recall information that you were previously unaware of?
Preconsciousness
When a person catches up on REM sleep after getting an inadequate amount the sleep cycle before.
REM Rebound
What sleep disorder causes hallucinations and the inability to move?
Sleep Paralysis
Manifest.
What is giving an individual instructions during hypnosis that are to be carried out after the end of the session?
Posthypnotic Suggestion
The processes that allow an individual to focus on particular input for further processing while simultaneously suppressing irrelevant or distracting information.
Selective Attention
What is it called when you have involuntary muscle spasm of the whole body that jolts a person awake; sleeper experiences sensation of falling?
Myoclonic Jerk
Do nightmares or night terrors occur during REM sleep?
Nightmares.
Night terrors occur during NREM sleep.
Upon waking up, you remember a hot air balloon from your dream. That hot air balloon means that you want to escape your current situation. According to Freud, this is called what type of content?
Latent
True or False. Under hypnosis, your memory accuracy is enhanced.
False.
You not recognizing that your fingernails are growing or your hair is getting longer is an example of this type of level of consciousness?
Nonconscious
This can occasionally occur during the transition from wakefulness to light sleep.
Hypnagogic Hallucinations
True or False: Sleepwalking occurs during REM sleep.
False. It occurs during Stage 3 sleep.
This theory argues that our brain combines the random firing of neurons into a story while we sleep.
Activation-Synthesis Theory
Focused attention
Responsive to suggestion
Vivid images & fantasies
Accept distortions
Suspends disbelief
Follows hypnotist’s instructions