PSYCHOLOGY: QUIZ on Chapter 5 "Consciousness"

What is consciousness?

• The ability to hold something in your hand

• The awareness of ourselves and our environment

• The process of learning and practicing

• The measurement of energy and space

What is selective attention?

• The ability to focus on one stimulus and tune out the rest

• The ability to shift consciousness from one thing to another

• The process of organizing information from multiple sources

• The measurement of brain activity and mental processes

Psychologist that thought of consciousness as a continuously moving, shifting, and unbroken stream. "Stream of consciousness"

• Wilhem Wundt

• William James

• B. F. Skinner

• Jean Pavlov

Name the sleeping disorder where sleeping attacks can occur at inopportune times. 

• narcolepsy
• sleep apnea
• night terrors
• insomnia

The inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep.

• Insomnia

• Sleep Apnea

• Narcolepsy

• Microsleep

A type of snoring in which the person stops breathing for 10 seconds or more.

• Sleep Apnea

• Narcolepsy

• Microsleep

• Insomnia

REM stands for

• Rapid eye movement
• Rapid eye motion
• Rage eye movement
• Random eye movement

How are night terrors different from nightmares?

• They are remembered for years to come

• They involve screaming, confusion, and rapid heart rate

• They are things that happen in real life and then reoccur in the person's dreams

According to Freud, our dreams represent what?

• Our unconscious desires

• Our mind processing the events of the day

• Glimpses of the future

• Fears that overwhelm us during the day

The deepest sleep occurs in Stage 4.

• True

• False