AP Psych Unit 2 Dummy 2

What has been observed about sleep patterns and academic performance?

• Shorter sleep periods improve academic performance

• Longer sleep periods have no effect on performance

• Sacrificing sleep time for study worsens academic performance

• Sleep has no impact on academic achievement

If a student is consistently deprived of REM sleep, what is most likely to happen according to the text?

• The student will experience improved memory recall

• The student will have increased periods of deep sleep

• The student will have more REM sleep in subsequent nights

• The student will stop dreaming altogether

How might a person’s experiences with media affect their dreams?

• It has no effect on dream content

• Exposure to violent media can lead to more violent dreams

• Watching educational programs leads to dreaming about academic subjects

• Exposure to media content only affects waking thoughts

In what way might dreams help with memory consolidation?

• By randomly sorting experiences without a specific function

• By actively consolidating and fixing day’s experiences into memory

• By reflecting unrelated random neural activity

• By exclusively processing unconscious desires

Given that blind people sometimes 'see' in their dreams, what does this suggest about the nature of dreams?

• Dreams are entirely based on physical sensory experiences

• Dreams can involve sensory experiences not directly experienced

• Dreams are solely based on the person’s waking life experiences

• Dreams do not include any sensory experiences

What would likely be the result of a person who frequently interrupts their REM sleep?

• They will have fewer REM rebound periods

• They will not experience REM sleep

• They will experience increased REM sleep once allowed undisturbed

• Their dream content will become more coherent

What is the process by which sensory nerve endings respond to stimuli?

• Sensation

• Sensory receptors

• Perception

• Bottom-up processing

What type of processing begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information?

• Perception

• Sensation

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

Which process involves organizing and interpreting sensory information to recognize meaningful objects and events?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Bottom-up processing

• Sensory receptors

A person who identifies a flower by recognizing its colors and shapes, but also draws on past experiences to understand it as a flower, is using which of the following types of processing?

• Sensation

• Bottom-up processing

• Sensory receptors

• Top-down processing