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Psychology, 5/e

Lester M. Sdorow, Arcadia University
Cheryl A. Rickabaugh, University of Redlands

Consciousness

Multiple Choice Quiz


1	The process known as ______ represents an individual's ability to focus awareness on certain contents of consciousness while ignoring others.
		A)	awareness
		B)	perception
		C)	sensation
		D)	attention


2	According to psychoanalytic theorists, the _______ mind contains repressed feelings, memories, and response tendencies of which we are unaware.
		A)	conscious
		B)	preconscious
		C)	unconscious
		D)	subliminal


3	The sleep-wake cycle is an example of a _____ rhythm.
		A)	circadian
		B)	biological
		C)	phase advance
		D)	phase delay


4	The sleep stage associated with dreaming includes:
		A)	stage one
		B)	stage two
		C)	stage three
		D)	REM stage


5	During which stage of sleep are humans paralyzed and unable to move?
		A)	stage one
		B)	stage two
		C)	stage three
		D)	REM stage


6	A sleep disorder in which an awake person suffers from repeated, sudden, and irresistible REM sleep attacks is known as:
		A)	insomnia
		B)	narcolepsy
		C)	somnambulism
		D)	sleep apnea


7	The ability to be aware that one is dreaming and to direct one's dreams is known as:
		A)	lucid dreaming
		B)	nightmares
		C)	night terrors
		D)	sleep apnea


8	The psychological state in which the mind is split into two or more independent streams of consciousness is known as:
		A)	dissociation
		B)	hypermnesia
		C)	posthypnotic suggestions
		D)	pseudomemories


9	Which one of the following psychoactive drugs falls in the "stimulant" category?
		A)	LSD
		B)	caffeine
		C)	alcohol
		D)	opiates


10	Of the following categories of psychoactive drugs, which results in extreme alterations in consciousness, including a sense of timelessness and feelings of depersonalization?
		A)	stimulants
		B)	depressants
		C)	entactogens
		D)	hallucinogens


11	The new category of psychoactive drugs that have unique effects intermediate to those associated with hallucinogens and stimulants is:
		A)	stimulants
		B)	depressants
		C)	entactogens
		D)	hallucinogens


12	The abrupt cessation of ingestion of a psychoactive drug may result in ________ after chronic, long-term use.
		A)	hypnosis
		B)	normal consciousness
		C)	hallucination
		D)	withdrawal symptoms


13	Individuals apparently behave as she or he did as a child during the hypnotic state known as:
		A)	posthypnotic amnesia
		B)	age regression
		C)	dissociation
		D)	hypermnesia


14	The psychological process that reportedly causes people to carry out particular behaviors or to have particular experiences after leaving hypnosis is due to:
		A)	posthypnotic suggestion
		B)	age regression
		C)	dissociation
		D)	hypermnesia


15	Psychoanalytic theorists suggest that the _________ content contains the dream's hidden, underlying meaning.
		A)	manifest
		B)	lucid
		C)	latent
		D)	conscious

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