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1
Consciousness is:
A)the awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given moment.
B)our subjective understanding of the environment around us.
C)our subjective understanding of our private internal world.
D)All of these.
2
______ sleep makes up about half of the total sleep hours of those in their early 20s.
A)Stage 1
B)Stage 2
C)Stage 3
D)Stage 4
3
REM sleep is characterized by observable __________ and is usually accompanied by dreams.
A)random emotional memories
B)really even murmurs
C)rapid eye movements
D)rational emotive moments
4
In one survey, almost half of a group of college students who kept records of their dreams over a 2-week period reported having at least one:
A)sexually explicit dream.
B)nightmare.
C)dream about falling.
D)period of insomnia.
5
Freud interpreted the __________ content of dreams as expressing unconscious wish fulfillment.
A)latent
B)manifest
C)anxiety
D)nightmare
6
Dreams that permit us to reconsider and reprocess during sleep information that is critical for our daily survival comes from:
A)the biological perspective.
B)the psychodynamic perspective.
C)the humanist perspective.
D)the evolutionary perspective.
7
Randomly generated electrical energy during REM sleep randomly stimulates memories stored in the brain is the focus of which explanation of dreams?
A)dreams-for-survival theory
B)activation synthesis theory
C)activation information modulation theory
D)restoration theory
8
Notta Sleepa is awakened many times during the night by her husband Restless' apparent difficulty breathing. Every few minutes, Restless Sleepa's airway becomes momentarily obstructed until he gasps and then starts breathing again. Given these symptoms, it is most likely that Restless is suffering from:
A)nightmare disorder.
B)sleep apnea.
C)narcolepsy.
D)REM sleep disturbance disorder.
9
After sleeping for an hour, Fraidy Katt wakes up screaming. Her mother rushes to her side and ask what's wrong. Fraidy does not know what frightened her. Fraidy is having a(n):
A)night terror.
B)nightmare.
C)abrupt attack of REM sleep.
D)narcolepsy.
10
Sleepwalking will most likely occur during which part of the night?
A)the early part of sleep
B)the middle of sleep
C)near the end of sleep
D)anytime during sleep
11
Circadian rhythms are controlled by the brain's:
A)parathyroid gland.
B)ventromedial nucleus.
C)bed nucleus of stria terminalis.
D)suprachiasmatic nucleus.
12
Inn Somniack spends hours tossing and turning in bed. Which of the following suggestions might help him overcome his sleep problem?
A)drinking a glass of warm milk
B)avoiding sleeping pills
C)trying not to sleep
D)All of these.





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