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States of Consciousness and Learning

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The average sleep cycle is about ______ minutes
a)
100
b)
90
c)
60
d)
30
2.
When you feel most alert depends on your
a)
sleep cycle
b)
circadian rhythm 
c)
personality
d)
diet
3.
Which sleep disorder will a child who is affected most likely grow out of?
a)
narcolepsy
b)
sleep apnea
c)
night terrors
d)
insomnia
4.
Name the sleeping disorder where sleeping attacks can occur at inopportune times. 
a)
narcolepsy
b)
sleep apnea
c)
night terrors
d)
insomnia
5.
Sleep spindles show up during which sleep stage?
a)
stage 1 NREM
b)
stage 2 NREM
c)
stage 3 NREM
d)
REM
6.
Which scan would give us a view of the brain waves occurring during sleep?
a)
EEG
b)
MRI
c)
PET
d)
CAT
7.
The dreams we remember come during which sleep stage?
a)
stage 1 NREM
b)
stage 2 NREM
c)
stage 3 NREM
d)
REM
8.

Your awareness of everything that is going on around you and inside your own head at any given movement, which you use to organize your behavior.

a)

Consciousness

b)

Circadian Rhythm

c)

Insomnia

d)

Hypnosis

9.

Occurs when there is a shift in the quality or pattern of your mental activity. Thoughts may become fuzzy, disorganized and you may feel less alert, or your thoughts may take bizarre turns, as they so often do in dreams.

a)

Altered State of Consciousness

b)

Waking Consciousness

c)

Hypnosis

d)

Narcolepsy

10.

Loss of sleep.

a)

Sleep Deprivation

b)

Microsleep

c)

Narcolepsy

d)

Non-REM Sleep

11.

Brief sidesteps into sleep lasting only seconds.

a)

Microsleep

b)

Circadian Rhythm

c)

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep

d)

Sleep Apnea

12.

Which of the following is not a brain-wave pattern during sleep?

a)

Gamma Waves

b)

Beta Waves

c)

Alpha Waves

d)

Theta Waves

13.

Which of the following psychologists are most associated with dreams?

a)

Freud

b)

Bandura

c)

Asch

d)

Binet

14.

According to Freud, this part of the dream is the actual dream itself, whereas this part of the dream is the hidden meaning of the dream.

a)

Manifest Content; Latent Content

b)

Latent Content; Manifest Content

15.
__________  refers to an increased percentage of time spent in REM sleep when we are deprived of REM sleep on the previous night.
a)
REM deprivation
b)
REM sleep
c)
REM rebound
d)
REM extension
16.

How are night terrors different from nightmares?

a)

They are remembered for years to come

b)

They involve screaming, confusion, and rapid heart rate

c)

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

17.

According to Freud, our dreams represent what?

a)

Our unconscious desires

b)

Our mind processing the events of the day

c)

Glimpses of the future

d)

Fears that overwhelm us during the day

18.

A naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary and unlearned response. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food.

a)

Unconditioned Stimulus

b)

Conditioned Stimulus

c)

Conditioned Response

d)

Neutral Stimulus

19.

Learning to make an involuntary response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the response.

a)

Classical Conditioning

b)

Operant Conditioning

20.

An involuntary and unlearned response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, the salivation to the food.

a)

Unconditioned Response

b)

Conditioned Stimulus

c)

Conditioned Response

d)

Neutral Stimulus

21.

A learned response to a conditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, when the dog salivates at the sight of the bowl, even when it’s empty.

a)

Conditioned Response

b)

Unconditioned Stimulus

c)

Unconditioned Response

d)

Neutral Stimulus

22.

The disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus or the removal of a reinforcer.

a)

Extinction

b)

Spontaneous Recovery

c)

Operant Conditioning

d)

Reinforcement

23.

A stimulus that has no effect on the desired response prior to conditioning. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food bowl before the experiment.

a)

Neutral Stimulus

b)

Conditioned Response

c)

Unconditioned Stimulus

d)

Unconditioned Response

24.

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

a)

Operant Conditioning

b)

Classical Conditioning

25.

If a person suffers from anxiety, it is likely they have too many

a)

beta waves

b)

alpha waves

c)

theta waves

d)

delta waves

26.

Mrs Smith was watching her class. She noticed that Sienna was listening attentively and Ruby was daydreaming . It is likely that Sienna would be showing ___ brainwaves and that Ruby would be showing ___

a)

beta, theta

b)

theta, delta

c)

beta, alpha

d)

beta, delta

27.

The approximate length of the human sleep cycle is:

a)

30 minutes

b)

60 minutes

c)

90 minutes

d)

120 minutes

28.

About what percentage of our sleep time is spent in REM?

a)

20%

b)

50%

c)

80%

d)

90%

29.

Which occurs during NREM 2?

a)

sleep spindles

b)

Beta and theta waves

c)

Secretion of the growth hormone and sleepwalking

d)

Heart rate increase and quick movements of the eyes

30.

Which of the following is not a brain-wave pattern during sleep?

a)

Gamma Waves

b)

Beta Waves

c)

Alpha Waves

d)

Theta Waves

31.

The statement, "People are nothing more than robots. We are driven by our biological reactions to stimuli," would best be supported by __

a)

B.F. Skinner

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

James Watson

d)

E.L. Thorndike

32.

In Pavlov's experiment, the bell is the _

a)

Neutral Stimulus

b)

Conditioned Stimulus

c)

Conditioned Response

d)

Unconditioned Response

33.

What is an example of a primary reinforcer?

a)

VIdeo Games

b)

Punishment

c)

Food

d)

School

34.

After Teddy has been conditioned to fearing people with black socks, Teddy sees a black ankle brace and responds similarly to seeing black socks. What is this an example of?

a)

Discrimination

b)

Operant Conditioning

c)

Chaining

d)

Generalization

35.

Timmy is behaving badly. His mother spanks him every time he does this. This is an example of

a)

Negative Punishment

b)

Positive Punishment

c)

Negative Reinforcement

d)

Positive Reinforcement

36.

What is best when FIRST teaching a new behavior

a)

Fixed Ratio

b)

Fixed Interval

c)

Continuous Reinforcement

d)

Partial Reinforcement

37.

Ross and Bandura demonstrated aggression and observational learning through

a)

The Premack Principle

b)

Latent Learning

c)

The Bobo Doll experiment

d)

Instinctive Drift

38.

A man receives a paycheck bi- weekly

a)

Variable interval

b)

Fixed Ratio

c)

Fixed Interval

d)

Variable Interval

39.

Best represents a slot machine

a)

Variable Interval

b)

Fixed Interval

c)

Variable Ratio

d)

Fixed Ratio

40.

A mental image of a spatial environment -

a)

Abstraction

b)

Image

c)

Mental Set

d)

Cognitive Map

41.

Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee's sudden solving of a problem as evidence of:

a)

Instinct

b)

Learning set

c)

Insight

d)

Spontaneous recovery

42.

It's a very hot summer day and Viva is sweating in her apartment. She turns on the air conditioning and right away her apartment gets cooler. Viva is now more likely to turn on the AC when she is hot to reduce her discomfort. This is an example of:

a)

Positive Reinforcement

b)

Negative Reinforcement

c)

Punishment

d)

Positive punishment

43.

When a conditioned response stops occurring:

a)

Systematic desensitization

b)

Spontaneous recovery

c)

Conditioned stimulus

d)

Extinction

44.

Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about

a)

counter conditioning

b)

operant conditioning

c)

classical conditioning

d)

all of the above

45.

Stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs.

a)

Secondary reinforcer

b)

Primary reinforcer

c)

unconditioned stimulus

d)

conditioned stimulus

46.

Most psychologists suggest that physical punishment is not the best way to deal with a problem because it:

a)

May cause children to learn to hit

b)

May cause a child to run away

c)

Does not teach the correct way to act.

d)

Does all of the above

47.

Which part of the brain fires when performing a certain action, and/or observing a certain action?

a)

Monkey genes

b)

Mirror neurons

c)

aversion

d)

Pre-frontal lobes

48.

Act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar

a)

Discrimination

b)

Generalization

c)

Secondary Reinforcer

d)

Primary reinforcer

49.

Reinforcement _______ the rate of a response; punishment ______ the rate of a response.

a)

Increases; decreases

b)

Decreases; increases

c)

Decreases; decreases

d)

Increases; does not affect

50.
John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the _____________ in their study.
a)
discriminative stimulus
b)
conditioned stimulus
c)
unconditioned stimulus
d)
extinguished stimulus
51.
Brian ate a tuna salad sandwich that had become tainted from being in the sun too long.  Not long after eating, Brian became extremely nauseated and felt awful.  After that, even the sight of a tuna sandwich caused Brian to feel nauseated.  In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)?
a)
tuna
b)
nausea
c)
mayo
d)
sight of any sandwich
52.

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

a)

positive punishment

b)

negative punishment

c)

positive reinforcement

d)

negative reinforcement

53.

Dogs stood on an electrified floor. Group 1 was shocked and jumped to a safe spot. Group 2 was shocked but chained and unable to jump. Even when later unchained, group 2 dogs did not try and leave the electrified floor.

a)

avoidance learning

b)

learned helplessness

c)

escapism

d)

denial

54.
Marie works in a dress factory where she earns $10 for each three dresses she hems. Marie is paid on a
a)
variable ratio
b)
fixed interval
c)
fixed ratio
d)
variable interval
55.

Which is the defintion of extinction?

a)

No longer an organism species exists

b)

Getting rid of an unconditioned response

c)

Diminishing a conditioned response

d)

Only answering to the stimulus

56.

When Olivia makes rude noises at the dinner table, she gets her mouth washed out with soap. She doesn't make rude noises that often anymore. This is an example of

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

negative reinforcement

c)

positive punishment

d)

negative punishment

57.

A professional baseball player getting a hit approximately every third time at bat is an example of what schedule of reinforcement?

a)

fixed ratio

b)

variable ratio

c)

fixed interval

d)

variable interval

58.

The reappearance after a period of time of a conditioned response that has been subjected to extinction

a)

spontaneous recovery

b)

stimulus discrimination

c)

conditioned response (CR)

d)

stimulus generalization

59.

Edward Tolman had three groups of rats. Group A got reinforced for running the maze. B did not. C did not at first, but in the second half of trials, started to. What Group C proved was that the rats had knowledge of the maze, but needed some reinforcement to achieve their full learning potential. Because their learning was "hidden", Tolman called it...

a)

Observational Learning

b)

Latent Learning

c)

Abstract Learning

d)

Insight Learning

60.

Ms. Hoffer uses Dolphin dollars as positive reinforcement for her class. Dolphin dollars can be spent that the classroom store to by pencils and things. Dolphin dollars are...

a)

Primary reinforcers

b)

Secondary reinforcers

c)

Negative reinforcers

d)

Vicarious reinforcers

e)

Aversive reinforcers