Chapter 3 Test – Flashcards
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Research on the use of addictive drugs indicates that
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Many people are able to stop using addictive drugs without professional help.
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Our inability to consciously process all the sensory information available to us at any single point in time best illustrates the necessity of
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Selective Attention.
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One of the dangers of using Ecstasy at all-night dances is
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Dehydration.
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Depressants are drugs such as
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Barbiturates and Opiates.
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The use of barbiturates ________ anxiety and ______ nervous system activity.
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Decreases; increases.
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Sleep deprivation ______ the production of body fat by ________ levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
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Stimulates; increasing.
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Hypnosis involves a state of
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Heightened openness to suggestion.
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Research studies of the content of dreams indicate that
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people are more likely to dream of failure than of success.
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The absence of a hypothalamic neural center that produces orexin has been linked to
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Narcolepsy.
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Brain regions that are active as people learn to perform a visual-discrimination task are especially likely to be active again later as they experience
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REM sleep.
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Compared with unconscious information processing, conscious information processing is relatively
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Slow ans especially effective for solving new problems.
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Reduce immune system functioning is most likely to accompany long-term repeated use of
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Ecstasy.
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According to Freud, the dreams of adults can be traced back to
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Erotic wishes.
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The best time for athletes to engage in heavy exercise workouts is
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Late afternoon or early evening.
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Researchers are most likely to question the value of hypnosis for
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Enhancing memory.
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Compared with adults, children are
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More likely to experience night terrors and more likely to experience sleepwalking.
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Consciousness is
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
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A need to take larger and larger doeses of sleeping ills to avoid insomnia indicates
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Tolerance.
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During REM sleep, your skeletal muscles are relaxed because messages from the motor cortex are blocked by the
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Brainstem.
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Repeated use of opiate
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Decreases the brain's production of endorphin's.
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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere is called
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Inattentional blindness.
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People can be hypnotically induced to
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Report little pain from placing their arms in an ice bath.
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Most college students are "owls" with performance ________ across the day. Most older adults are "larks," with performance _____ as the day progresses.
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Improving; declining.
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The best indication that dreaming serves a necessary biological function is provided by the fact that
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Most mammals experience REM rebound.
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REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because
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Our nervous system is highly active, while our voluntary muscles hardly move.
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The activation of light-sensitive retinal proteins in our eyes singnals our brains to decrease production of
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Melatonin.
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Bed wetting is most likely to occur at the end of _______ sleep
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NREM-3
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Alcohol consumption is likely to ________ attention to an arousing provocation and ______ attention to normal inhibitions.
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Increase; decrease.
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The simultaneous processing of information at both conscious and unconscious levels is called
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Dual processing.
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Sleep deprecation has been shown to
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Diminish immunity to disease.
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The divided-consciousness theory of hypnosis receives support form evidence that
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Hypnotized people can endure pain without experiencing emotional distress.
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Fast and jerky movements of the eyes are especially likely to be associated with
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REM sleep.
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Unlike alcohol, the THC in marijuana
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Lingers in the body for a week or more.
