Deck 5: Section 5: Consciousness

Question 1

Which statement illustrates drug tolerance?

A)With continued use, less and less of a drug is needed to produce the same effect.
B)Stopping drug use produces sickness.
C)With continued use, the same dose of a drug has less of an effect.
D)With continued use, a person begins to crave the drug more and more.

Answer 1

With continued use, the same dose of a drug has less of an effect.

Question 2

A well-established phenomenon of hypnosis is that some people who are susceptible to hypnosis can experience a reduction of pain even more effective than that produced under anesthesia. This phenomenon is known as:

A)hypnogogic nociception.
B)hypnotic suggestion.
C)posthypnotic amnesia.
D)hypnotic analgesia.

Answer 2

hypnotic analgesia.

Question 3

A mother sleeping in the middle of the night nevertheless responds when she hears her 2-year-old daughter crying in the adjacent bedroom. This indicates that the mother possesses:

A)minimal consciousness
B)full consciousness
C)a dynamic unconsciousness
D)REM consciousness

Answer 3

minimal consciousness

Question 4

According to Freud, repression is a way for the unconscious to:

A)actively engage and perform conscious desires.
B)remove unacceptable thoughts and desires from conscious thought.
C)allow people to experience unconscious desires and impulses without feeling ashamed.
D)create new memories based on previous experiences.

Question 5

Latent content of dreams is to manifest content of dreams as:

A)beta waves are to delta waves.
B)meaning is to camouflage
C)outward is to inward.
D)smoke screen is to hidden trap door.

Question 6

Consciousness can be described as consisting of four basic properties, which are:

A)unity, selectivity, syllogism, and transience.
B)intentionality, unity, selectivity, and transience.
C)selectivity, transience, syllogism, and dreams.
D)intentionality, unity, selectivity, and dreams.

Question 7

_____ excite the activity of the central nervous system, resulting in heightened arousal and activity levels.

A)Depressants
B)Hallucinogens
C)Stimulants
D)Narcotics

Question 8

Which of these is NOT associated with REM sleep?

A)delta-wave activity
B)increased pulse and blood pressure
C)dreaming
D)blood flow to sexual organs

Question 9

Troy's roommates were surprised when they found him walking around the kitchen at 3:00 a.m. trying to make breakfast, especially because he was still asleep! Troy MOST likely suffers from:

A)night terrors.
B)insomnia.
C)sleep paralysis.
D)somnambulism.

Question 10

Which individual is MOST likely to experience sleep apnea?

A)Ariel, an elderly woman with few friends
B)Michael, a relatively inactive 25-year-old man
C)Jocelyn, a middle-aged widow
D)Mark, an overweight 55-year-old man

Question 11

Dream consciousness is characterized by all of these EXCEPT:

A)feeling intense emotion.
B)uncritical acceptance of illogical things.
C)difficulty remembering the dream after it ends.
D)sensations of pain during some nightmares.

Question 12

After Ginger fell on stage during her dance recital, she actively tried not to think about it. According to the rebound effect, this would _____ the chances that the thought of falling on stage will return to Ginger's consciousness.

A)decrease
B)increase
C)hold constant
D)not affect

Question 13

A few hours of sleep deprivation each night can:

A)build up over time, causing potentially serious physical and mental harm.
B)reduce mental acuity but otherwise have no effect on the body.
C)improve memory by interrupting the consolidation process.
D)result in physical fatigue but have no effect on mental processes.

Question 14

The difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others is called the:

A)problem of consciousness.
B)problem of other minds.
C)mind-body problem.
D)cocktail-party phenomenon.

Question 15

A person's subjective experience of the world and the mind is:

A)consciousness.
B)unconsciousness.
C)the brain.
D)the mind.