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1. The simultaneous processing of information on many parallel tracks is most closely
associated with
A) REM rebound.
B) sleep apnea.
C) narcolepsy.
D) unconscious mental activity.
2. Drivers detect traffic signals more slowly if they are also talking on a cellphone. This best
illustrates the impact of
A) choice blindness.
B) selective attention.
C) hypnagogic sensations.
D) neuroadaptation.
3. Staying up especially late on weekends is most likely to have an influence on
A) narcolepsy.
B) sleep apnea.
C) the circadian rhythm.
D) dissociation.
4. Sleepwalking is most likely to be associated with ________ sleep.
A) Stage 2
B) Stage 3
C) Stage 4
D) REM
5. A recurring sleep stage during which most vivid dreams commonly occur is known as
________ sleep.
A) Stage 2
B) Stage 3
C) Stage 4
D) REM
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6. Narcolepsy is associated with a relative absence of a hypothalamic neural center that
produces
A) leptin.
B) orexin.
C) melatonin.
D) THC.
7. Which of the following sleep disorders is most strongly associated with obesity?
A) narcolepsy
B) insomnia
C) night terrors
D) sleep apnea
8. The distinction between manifest content and latent content is central to ________ theory
of dreams.
A) the activation-synthesis
B) the memory consolidation
C) Freud's wish-fulfillment
D) Hilgard's dissociation
9. Research most clearly disputes claims of
A) REM rebound.
B) age regression.
C) circadian rhythms.
D) hypnagogic sensations.
10. Dissociation has been used as an explanation for
A) narcolepsy.
B) paradoxical sleep.
C) hypnotic pain relief.
D) the near-death experience.
11. Social influence explanations and divided-consciousness explanations are converging toward
a unified account of
A) REM rebound.
B) hypnosis.
C) neuroadaptation.
D) the pop-out phenomenon.
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12. As drug users experience neuroadaptation, they demonstrate signs of
A) dissociation.
B) narcolepsy.
C) tolerance.
D) hallucinations.
13. Alcohol consumption disrupts the processing of recent experiences into long-term memory
by
A) decreasing REM sleep.
B) increasing anxiety.
C) decreasing sleep apnea.
D) increasing self-consciousness.
14. Nicotine triggers a(n) ________ in anxiety and a(n) ________ in mental alertness.
A) increase; decrease
B) increase; increase
C) decrease; decrease
D) decrease; increase
15. The experience of vivid geometric images and dreamlike scenes is most likely to be triggered
by
A) LSD.
B) heroin.
C) Nembutal.
D) amphetamines.
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