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CHAPTER 5
TEST PREP QUESTIONS
1. THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE BRAIN CREATES A MODEL
OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EXPERIENCES IS DEFINED AS
• A) unconsciousness
• B) pre consciousness
• C) consciousness
• D) nonconsciousness
• E) semiconsciousness
2. THE PATTERN OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
SEEMS TO BE CONTROLLED BY AN INTERNAL “BIOLOGICAL
CLOCK” THAT IS
A) Sensitive to daylight –dark circles
B) Coordinated by neurons in the brain stem
C) Set on a 12 hour cycle
D) Identical for all people
E) Unrelated to work schedules and travel
Pg. 167
3. ________ IS AN EXAMPLE OF A CONSCIOUSNESS
PROCESS.
a) Breathing
b) Trying to choose the best answer to this question
c) Regulating your blood pressure
d) Scratching an itch
e) Blinking every few seconds
Pg. 159
4. WHICH GROUP IS MOST LIKELY TO BELIEVE THAT THE
CONSCIOUSNESS IS A NATURAL PROCESS OCCURRING IN THE
NERVE CELLS OF THE BRAIN THAT CAN BE STUDIED
THROUGH OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY?
a) Humanistic psychologists
b) Behavioral geneticists
c) Cognitive neuroscientists
d) Experiential psychologists
e) Clinical psychologists
Pg. 159
5. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FUNCTIONS WOULD
BE CONSIDERED A NONCONSCIOUS PROCESS?
a) Studying for your psychology exam
b) Telling your mother you love her
c) Digesting the cheeseburger you ate for lunch
d) Painting a picture of a landscape
e) All of the above are nonconscious processes
Pg. 160
6. ACCORDING TO THE FINDINGS OF SHEPARD AND METZLER
(1971), VOLUNTEERS IN THE MENTAL ROTATION
EXPERIMENT DEMONSTRATED THAT
a) It did not take them any longer to respond when asked to rotate an object in space
b) When they were asked to recall details about a given object, it took them a very long time to respond
c) If they had seen an object before, they could rotate it quickly in their mind
d) It took them longer to rotate objects in their mind
e) Object rotation is a nonconscious process
Pg. 160-161
7. ACCORDING TO THE WORK OF STEPHEN KOSSLYN, WHEN
PARTICIPANTS WERE ASKED TO IMAGINE AN OBJECT, SUCH
AS A HOUSE;
A) They took longer to respond as the details asked for became smaller
B) They took the same amount of time to respond regardless of how large or small the detail asked for
was
C) It took them longer to rotate objects in space
D) It took them no longer to respond regardless of whether or not they had to rotate an object
E) Some people had trouble visualizing objects in their minds
p. 161
8. PRECONSCIOUS MEMORIES ARE THOUGHT TO
a) Reside below the level of awareness until they are needed by consciousness
b) Detect changes in biological functioning and regulate them without
c) Involve automatic cognitive processing of information
d) Stem from the need to repress traumatic memories or taboo desires
e) Be absent from conscious memory because they are “buried” too deep
Pg. 163-164
9. ACCORDING TO FREUD, IF YOU BECOME AWARE OF
YOU UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHTS
a) There would be too much information for you to process
b) You would experience physical symptoms of illness
c) It would cause you extreme anxiety
d) You could function in a more healthy manner
e) You would become quite violent
Pg. 164
10. AN INDIVIDUALS DESIRE TO TAKE A “SIESTA” IN
THE AFTERNOON IS DRIVEN BY
a) What they ate for lunch
b) Biological rhythms
c) Stage 1 of sleep
d) Sleep spindles
e) Sleep deprivation
Pg. 167
11. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DOES NOT HAPPEN
DURING REM SLEEP?
a) Dreams
b) Vivid images and thoughts
c) Sleep paralysis
d) Sleep walking
e) Lack of mental activity
Pgs 168
12. YOUR ALARM CLOCK IS SET TO WAKE YOU P 2 HOURS
BEFORE YOUR WOULD NORMALLY ARISE. AFTER A FEW
DAYS OF THIS, YOU SHUT OFF YOUR ALARM CLOCK AND GO
TO SLEEP. WE WOULD NOW EXPECT TO SHOW
a) Even less REM sleep than usual
b) More REM sleep than usual
c) No REM sleep
d) The same amount of REM sleep
e) Only REM sleep
Pgs. 169
13. THE OCCURRENCE OF DAYTIME SLEEP ATTACKS IS
A SYMPTOM OF
a) Sleep Paralysis
b) Narcolepsy
c) insomnia
d) Daytime sleepiness
e) Sleep apnea
p. 176-177
14. A THERAPIST WHO ANALYZES YOUR DREAMS IS MOST
LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN TRAINED ACCORDING TO THIS
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY.
a) behaviorism
b) cognitive
c) humanistic
d) psychoanalytical
e) Neuroscience
Pg 173
15. ACCORDING TO THE ACTIVATION SYNTHESIS THEORY,
DREAMS ARE
a) Replays of events during the previous day
b) Wish fulfillments
c) Mental garbage
d) Storylike episodes that provide clues about the problems in the unconscious mind
e) An attempt by the brain to make sense of random activity in the brain stem
Pg. 174
1) C
2) A
3) b
4) c
5) C
6) D
7) A
8) A
9) C
10) B
11) D
12) B
13) B
14) D
15) E
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