Chapter 7 - Altered States of Consciousness - Psych

Hypnosis can be used to help people quick smoking and even lose weight.

• True

• False

The three major approaches to meditation include transcendental, mindfulness, and breath meditation.

• True

• False

This famous Psychologist believed that dreams contained clues to thoughts the dreamer was afraid to acknowledge while awake. Who was he?

• B.F. Skinner
• Alfred Adler
• Carl Jung
• Sigmund Freud

A dream in which you are aware of that you are experiencing a dream and can control it is known as _______ dreaming.

• lucid
• unconscious
• fantasy
• dreamlike

During this form of altered consciousness in which people become highly suggestible to changes in thought and behavior is known as?

• sleepwalking
• meditation
• hypnosis
• daydreaming

According to this Psychologist's theory on hypnosis was that hypnosis is not a special stage of consciousness but simply the result of suggestibility.

• Sigmund Freud
• Theodore Barber

• B.F. Skinner
• Carl Jung

This is one of the most widely used and abused substances in the United States. What is it?

• Caffeine
• Sugar
• Nicotine
• Alcohol

What is the chemical found in tobacco that is extremely addictive and can cause lasting cognitive and behavioral impairments?

• Caffeine
• Tar
• Nicotine
• Carbon monoxide

Barbiturates, alcohol, and Valium are classified as

• stimulants
• depressants
• hallucinogens
• narcotics

Which of the following occurs during REM sleep?

• sleepwalking

• delta waves

• regular pulse waves

• dreaming