Consciousness Practice Test

1. / In an experiment, hypnotized subjects are told to scratch their ear if they hear the word “psychology” mentioned later. The fact that they do so only if they think the experiment is still under way most clearly supports the theory that hypnosis involves:
A) / neuroadaptation.
B) / role playing.
C) / hypnagogic sensations.
D) / dissociation.
2. / Hallucinations similar to those that accompany the near-death experience can be produced by:
A) / narcolepsy.
B) / oxygen deprivation.
C) / dissociation.
D) / sleep apnea.
E) / dehydration.
3. / Alcohol consumption disrupts the processing of recent experiences into long-term memory by:
A) / increasing anxiety.
B) / increasing self-consciousness.
C) / decreasing REM sleep.
D) / decreasing sleep apnea.
4. / Research on addictive drugs most clearly indicates that:
A) / addictions to narcotic drugs can't be overcome without professional treatment programs.
B) / relationship dependencies have the same addictive characteristics as drug dependencies.
C) / most of America's ex-smokers were able to kick the habit on their own.
D) / the medical use of morphine to control pain typically leads to addiction.
5. / The simultaneous processing of information on many parallel tracks is most closely associated with:
A) / narcolepsy.
B) / sleep apnea.
C) / posthypnotic suggestion.
D) / unconscious mental activity.
E) / REM rebound.
6. / People who claim to have been abducted by space aliens—often shortly after going to bed—commonly recall being floated off their beds. It is most likely that they have incorporated ______into their memories.
A) / narcolepsy
B) / sleep apnea
C) / sleep spindles
D) / hypnagogic sensations
7. / Staying up especially late on weekends is most likely to have an influence on:
A) / seasonal affective disorder.
B) / the circadian rhythm.
C) / narcolepsy.
D) / sleep apnea.
8. / Narcolepsy is associated with a relative absence of a hypothalamic neural center that produces:
A) / THC.
B) / melatonin.
C) / adenosine.
D) / hypocretin.
9. / Those who complain of insomnia typically ______how long it actually takes them to fall asleep and ______how long they actually slept.
A) / overestimate; underestimate
B) / overestimate; overestimate
C) / underestimate; overestimate
D) / underestimate; underestimate
10. / Sleepwalking is most likely to be associated with ______sleep.
A) / Stage 3
B) / Stage 4
C) / Stage 2
D) / REM
E) / Stage 1
11. / The distinction between manifest content and latent content is central to ______theory of dreams.
A) / Freud's wish-fulfillment
B) / the activation-synthesis
C) / Hilgard's dissociation
D) / the memory consolidation
12. / Research most clearly disputes claims of:
A) / hypnagogic sensations.
B) / REM rebound.
C) / age regression.
D) / circadian rhythms.
13. / The large, slow brain waves associated with Stage 4 sleep are called:
A) / alpha waves.
B) / REMs.
C) / delta waves.
D) / sleep spindles.
14. / Dissociation has been used as an explanation for:
A) / paradoxical sleep.
B) / hypnotic pain relief.
C) / the near-death experience.
D) / narcolepsy.
15. / Bright light inhibits our feelings of sleepiness by influencing the production of:
A) / THC.
B) / MDMA.
C) / melatonin.
D) / dopamine.

Answer Key

1. / B
2. / B
3. / C
4. / C
5. / D
6. / D
7. / B
8. / D
9. / A
10. / B
11. / A
12. / C
13. / C
14. / B
15. / C

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