Psych chap 3 – Flashcards
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Focused attention, sleeping, hypnosis
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Consciousness includes all of these
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Suprachiasmatic nucleus
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The cluster of brain cells that control the circadian rhythm is the
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While listening to the symphony marisol concentrates on what the pianist plays while automatically responding to the temp and theme of the over all performance
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Which of the following illustrates dual processing
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NREM-1
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Sleep spindles predominate during which stage of sleep
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REM sleep
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During which stage of sleep does the body experience increased heart rate, rapid breathing, and genital arousal
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90
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The sleep cycle is approximately how many minutes?
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Suppression, diminished productivity, depression
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The effects of chronic sleep deprivation include
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Decrease REM sleep
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One effect of sleeping pills is to
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Blocking the reputable of dopamine in brain cells
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Cocaine and crack produce a euphoric rush by
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Alcohol
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Example of depressant?
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Eliminating sleep deprivation
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Preventive measures would have the greatest impact on life expectancy
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Hypnosis is in part an extension of the division between conscious awareness and automatic behavior
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What concerns hypnosis
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The information process theory of dreaming
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People who heard unusual phrases prior to sleep were awakened each time they began REM sleep. The fact that they remembered less the next morning provides support for
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A symbolic fulfillment of erotic wishes
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According to Freud dreams are
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Alteration of neural activity in the brain
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Psychoactive drugs affect behavior and perception through
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Consciousness
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At its beginning psychology focused on the study of
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25 hours in duration
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The sleep walking cycles of young people who stay up to late typically are
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African Americans
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The lowest rates of drug use among high school seniors is reported by
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Rem sleep deprivation results in REM rebound
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Statements regarding Rem sleep
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Inattentional blindness
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The perceptual error in which we fail to see an object when our attention is directed elsewhere is
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The transfer of experiences to long term memory
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Alcohol has the most profound effect on?
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Awake and relaxed
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A person whose EEG shows a high performance
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Regular body cycles that occur on a 24 hour schedule
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Circadian rhythms are
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Tolerance
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A person who requires increasing amounts of a drug in order to feel it's effect is said to have developed
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Sudden sleep attacks during the day
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Not an example of biological rhythm
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Genital arousal
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Characteristic of REM sleep
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Amphetamines
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Not a stimulant
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GreAter when people are led to expect it
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Hypnotic responsiveness is
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A form of deep sleep
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According to Hilgard hypnosis is
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Ineffective
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Form of therapy for relieving problems such as drug addiction is
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Peer influence
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Usually the powerful determinant of whether teens begin using drugs
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Marijuana
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Thc is a major ingredient of
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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Consciousness
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MDMA
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I am a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen that produces euphoria and social intimacy by triggering the release of dopamine and serotonin
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The brains efforts to integrate unrelated bursts of activity in visual brain areas of emotional tone provided by the limbic system activity
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Dreaming represents
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On dosage and form, user expectation and personality, the situation
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How particular psychoactive drugs affects on a person
