Ch 5 States of Consciousness

What term designates our personal awareness of feelings, sensations, and thoughts?

• thinking

• cognition

• conscience

• consciousness

Dayanna recently had surgery that required anesthesia. Despite being fully under anesthesia, she later reported feeling pain and being able to hear what the doctors and nurses were saying. Dayanna experienced a relatively common phenomenon known as

• anesthetic awareness.

• anesthetic depth.

• persistent vegetative state.

• daydreaming.

What do we call a state of consciousness that can result from the use of alcohol, drugs, or hypnosis?

• daydreaming

• meditative absorption

• stream of consciousness

• altered state of consciousness

What do we call biological changes that occur on a daily schedule?

• biorhythms

• circadian rhythms

• ultradian rhythms

• biophasic rhythms

REM sleep refers to

• dreamless sleep.

• sleep induced by sleeping pills.

• sleep periods in which sleepwalking is likely.

• sleep periods in which a person’s eyes move rapidly.

You are telling a joke to your friend who is laughing uproariously and then suddenly collapses to the floor. About a minute later he gets up and tells you that he has a sleep disorder known as

• enuresis.

• narcolepsy.

• sleep terror.

• daytime insomnia.

Jim is 56 years old, overweight, with elevated blood pressure. His wife reports that he snores loudly. What sleep disorder seems to fit Jim’s symptoms?

• narcolepsy

• sleep apnea

• sleep terror

• REM sleep behavior

What is enuresis?

• bedwetting

• sleepwalking

• a treatment for narcolepsy

• very bad dreams in young children

The “Back to Sleep” program has reduced the number of deaths from

• narcolepsy.

• sleep apnea.

• sleep terrors.

• sudden infant death syndrome.

What two categories of dream content did Sigmund Freud describe?

• poetic and realistic

• literal and symbolic

• latent and manifest

• delusional and hallucinatory