Which of the following is the best definition of "consciousness"?

Question 1 options:

A) Your subjective experience of the world and mind

B) Sense of being awake

C) Your objective assessment of your own thoughts

D) Sense of your own identity

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The "problem of other minds" refers to our inability to do what?

Question 2 options:

A) Use objective methods to measure consciousness

B) Fully understand our own consciousness

C) Communicate adequately with others

D) Perceive the consciousness of others

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Which of the following philosophical ideas is directly related to the issues of consciousness?

Question 3 options:

A) Man and Machine

B) The Noble Savage

C) The Blank Slate

D) The Mind-Body Problem

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Consciousness has four qualities. Which of these qualities refers to its resistance to division?

Question 4 options:

A) Selectivity of consciousness

B) Unity of consciousness

C) Intentionality of consciousness

D) Transience of consciousness

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Our ability to tune out one message while listening to another is sometimes referred to as

Question 5 options:

A) dichotic listening.

B) shadowing.

C) stream of consciousness.

D) the cocktail party phenomenon.

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Human beings don't appear to have self-recognition until about what age?

Question 6 options:

A) 18 months

B) 1 year

C) 2 years

D) 36 months

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Our inability to consciously suppress thoughts may be the result of which phenomenon?

Question 7 options:

A) Self-consciousness

B) Rebound effect

C) Mental control

D) Minimal consciousness

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Freud suggested that our psychological apparatus will remove unacceptable thoughts and memories from our consciousness and place them in our unconscious, a process he referred to as

Question 8 options:

A) id control.

B) ego psychology.

C) defense mechanisms.

D) repression.

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Which of the following definitions of subliminal perception is correct?

Question 9 options:

A) A mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts from the unconscious.

B) The inability to not think about something when you are commanded to.

C) The active system that influences perception of an individual's world.

D) A situation where behavior is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot report perceiving.

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Approximately, how long is our circadian rhythm?

Question 10 options:

A) 20 hours

B) 24 hours

C) 12 hours

D) 36 hours

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Which stage of sleep is marked by theta waves?

Question 11 options:

A) Stage 4

B) Stage 2

C) Stage 1

D) Stage 3

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Which of the following statements about REM sleep is true?

Question 12 options:

A) You only dream during the REM stage of sleep.

B) The REM Stage of sleep is marked by delta waves.

C) REM sleep is characterized by a high level of brain activity.

D) We go through one period of REM sleep a night.

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Another name for the sleep disorder somnambulism is

Question 13 options:

A) snoring.

B) apnea.

C) insomnia.

D) sleepwalking.

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Which theory proposes that dreams are produced by the mind's attempts to make sense of random neural events?

Question 14 options:

A) Creative-synthesis model

B) Night terrors

C) Freudian theory

D) Activation-synthesis model

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Which type of drug is associated with expectancy theory?

Question 15 options:

A) Narcotics

B) Marijuana

C) Alcohol

D) Hallucinogens

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Which drug mimics the effects of the neurotransmitter endorphin?

Question 16 options:

A) Hallucinogens

B) Stimulants

C) Narcotics

D) Barbiturates

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Which of the following would make you a good candidate for hypnosis?

Question 17 options:

A) Habitual drug use

B) Extraverted personality

C) Vivid imagination

D) Low intelligence

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Hypnosis has been very successful in the treatment of which of the following problems?

Question 18 options:

A) Recall of past lives

B) Pain reduction

C) Enhancement of mental abilities

D) Retrieval of lost memories

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Which area of the brain appears to be involved in hypnosis?

Question 19 options:

A) Anterior frontal lobe

B) Anterior cingulate cortex

C) Fusiform gyrus

D) Tegumentum

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Which sleep disorder occurs most often in children?

Question 20 options:

A) night terrors

B) insomnia

C) narcolepsy

D) sleep apnea