Download Objectives - SSHS AP Psychology

Chapter Review
1.
States of Consciousness
Circadian Rhythms
Your friend travels to Hong Kong one week out of every month for her job. She suffers from serious jet lag
that is disrupting both her personal and professional life. She is considering taking melatonin purchased from a
local health store to help adjust her sleep cycles more quickly.
a) In your opinion, is this a good idea? Support your answer.
b) What are some other (non-pharmacological) approaches to relieving jet lag that she might try?
2.
Sleep Stages
During which of the stages of sleep that we discussed in class do each of the following occur:
a) sleep spindles ____________________________
b) dreams involving imagery ____________________________
c) hypnogogic hallucinations of floating or falling ____________________________
d) rapid heart rate and breathing ____________________________
e) sleepwalking ____________________________
f) physical restfulness ____________________________
g) motor paralysis ____________________________
h) sleeptalking ____________________________
i) “slow wave sleep” ____________________________
j) beginning of delta wave sleep____________________________
k) “paradoxical sleep” ____________________________
l) genital arousal ____________________________
m) type of sleep that gets longer as the night progresses ___________________________
n)
____________________________
3.
Sleep Disorders
Pick one of the sleep disorders that we discussed and determine if drug treatment for that disorder would
involve a stimulant or depressant drug. Briefly justify your response.
4.
Dreams
You are a psychologist and a patient comes to you with the following dream: My two friends and I were
driving around looking for a place to eat. Several restaurants had been suggested to us, but every time we went
to one of these restaurants, it turned out to be a church. Eventually, we went into one of the churches right as
the service was letting out only to find a flyer on the wall advertising a family style dinner for four (pot roast,
mashed potatoes, and two vegetables) costing $98. My friends were considering staying, but I refused because
I don’t like pot roast and mashed potatoes.
a) If you were a Freudian psychologist, how might you interpret the dream?
b) If you believed in the activation-synthesis theory of dreams, what might you tell your
patient about the dream?
Chapter Review
States of Consciousness
c)
If you believed in the information-processing theory of dreams, what might you tell your
patient about the dream?
5.
True or False
1. People prone to delinquency and violence have fewer vivid dreams. ____
2. Everyone dreams several times a night. ____
3. People who sleep eight hours a night tend to outlive those chronically sleep deprived. ____
4. The most common dreams are those with sexual imagery. ____
5. The majority of the characters in men’s dreams are female. ____
6. Most psychologists believe that dreams provide a key to understanding our inner conflicts. ____
7. Under hypnosis, people can be induced to perform feat they would otherwise find impossible. ____
8. Under hypnosis, people can be induced to perform acts they would otherwise find immoral. ____
9. Those given morphine to control pain often become addicted to the drug. ____
10. In large amounts, alcohol is a depressant; in small amounts, it is a stimulant. ____
6.
Drugs
List the three general classifications of types of drugs that we discussed in class. For each classification, give
one specific drug as an example and explain how this particular drug typically affects an individual using it.
Classification
Example
Effects of the drug listed as an example
a)
b)
c)
Objectives
 Define circadian rhythms and identify factors that influence them.
 Identify the five stages of sleep and what is happening at each stage.
 Identify the sleep stage given the EEG patterns.
 Describe at least one experiment performed that indicates the necessity of sleep.
 Describe the following sleep disorders: insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and night terrors
 Identify three theories for why we dream.
 Describe hypnosis and discuss what research suggests concerning what it can and cannot do.
 Describe the physiological manifestation of tolerance and withdrawal.
 Describe the effects of stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens.
 Given a psychoactive drug, be able to indicate if it is a stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogen
 Discuss factors that influence drug use in a culture and identify the best strategies for decreasing drug us in a
population.
 Discuss evidence supporting and refuting the hypothesis that NDE’s can be explained scientifically.
Additional Terms: consciousness, fantasy-prone personality, alpha waves, hallucinations, delta waves, manifest content,
latent content, REM rebound, posthypnotic amnesia, posthypnotic suggestion, dissociation, psychoactive drugs, opiates,
barbiturates, amphetamines, LSD, THC