PSYC 101 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE GRADED
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If you are like most people, you experience daily fluctuations in many bodily
processes, such as blood pressure, the secretion of hormones, and so on. These
daily variations in biological and psychological processes are called:
circadian rhythms.
Professor Behrens studies circadian rhythms. How does Professor Behrens
create "free-running conditions" in her research?
She arranges for volunteers to spend several weeks in isolation units without exposure
to sunlight, clocks, or other time cues.
Lacey just started working the graveyard shift at a local factory, from 11:00 p.m.
until 8 a.m. Which of the following factors makes it harder for her to adjust to her
new schedule?
The exposure to the bright morning sunlight when driving home after working the night
shift will make it harder for her to adjust.
Which of the following best describes a myoclonic jerk?
as a person is going to sleep, an involuntary muscle spasm that jolts the person awake
Dreaming usually takes place during _____ sleep and is typically accompanied by
_____.
REM; physiological arousal, brain activity, and rapid movement of the eyes
On the average, each complete cycle through the stages of NREM sleep and REM
sleep lasts about:
90 minutes.
For several nights in a row, a sleep researcher wakes you up whenever you show
signs of entering REM sleep. On the first night that you are allowed to sleep
uninterrupted, you will most likely experience:
REM rebound.
PET and fMRI scans have revealed that the brain's activity during REM sleep is:
distinctly different from its activity during either wakefulness or NREM slow-wave sleep.
Memories of personally experienced events that tend to be consolidated during
NREM slow
wave sleep are called:- episodic memories.
Sheena was describing a dream she had about her psychology class to a friend.
"During the dream, I realized it was dream, and I didn't like the way the dream was
going so I went back to the beginning of the dream and started it over," she
explained to her astonished friend. What had Sheena experienced?
a lucid dream
According to _____, dreaming is our subjective awareness of the brain's
internally generated signals that occur repeatedly throughout the process of a
night's sleep.
the activation-synthesis model of dreaming
According to the activation-synthesis model of dreaming:
dreams are meaningful insofar as they reflect how the dreamer imposes personal
meaning on the images generated by his or her brain.
Which of the following characterizes obstructive sleep apnea?
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If you are like most people, you experience daily fluctuations in many bodily
processes, such as blood pressure, the secretion of hormones, and so on. These
daily variations in biological and psychological processes are called:
circadian rhythms.
Professor Behrens studies circadian rhythms. How does Professor Behrens
create "free-running conditions" in her research?
She arranges for volunteers to spend several weeks in isolation units without exposure
to sunlight, clocks, or other time cues.
Lacey just started working the graveyard shift at a local factory, from 11:00 p.m.
until 8 a.m. Which of the following factors makes it harder for her to adjust to her
new schedule?
The exposure to the bright morning sunlight when driving home after working the night
shift will make it harder for her to adjust.
Which of the following best describes a myoclonic jerk?
as a person is going to sleep, an involuntary muscle spasm that jolts the person awake
Dreaming usually takes place during _____ sleep and is typically accompanied by
_____.
REM; physiological arousal, brain activity, and rapid movement of the eyes
On the average, each complete cycle through the stages of NREM sleep and REM
sleep lasts about:
90 minutes.
For several nights in a row, a sleep researcher wakes you up whenever you show
signs of entering REM sleep. On the first night that you are allowed to sleep
uninterrupted, you will most likely experience:
REM rebound.
PET and fMRI scans have revealed that the brain's activity during REM sleep is:
distinctly different from its activity during either wakefulness or NREM slow-wave sleep.
Memories of personally experienced events that tend to be consolidated during
NREM slow
wave sleep are called:- episodic memories.
Sheena was describing a dream she had about her psychology class to a friend.
"During the dream, I realized it was dream, and I didn't like the way the dream was
going so I went back to the beginning of the dream and started it over," she
explained to her astonished friend. What had Sheena experienced?
a lucid dream
According to _____, dreaming is our subjective awareness of the brain's
internally generated signals that occur repeatedly throughout the process of a
night's sleep.
the activation-synthesis model of dreaming
According to the activation-synthesis model of dreaming:
dreams are meaningful insofar as they reflect how the dreamer imposes personal
meaning on the images generated by his or her brain.
Which of the following characterizes obstructive sleep apnea?
