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Consciousness Quiz

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A psych quiz covering all aspects of the consciousness chapter.
Roya Pishvaei
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Question 1

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What is the best definition of consciousness?
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  • The ability to judge minds according to experience and agency
  • A state of awareness
  • A persons subjective experience of the world and the mind
  • The world and mind being perceived with complete awareness

Question 2

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Which of the following in the correct order for the timing of brain activity movement?
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  • -535 msec, -204 msec, 0
  • 0, -204 msec, -535 msec
  • -204 msec, -535 msec, 0
  • -535 msec, 0, -204 msec

Question 3

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Which of the following has the most agency but little to no experience.
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  • Man, Woman
  • Baby, God
  • Robot, God
  • Dead Woman, Robot

Question 4

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What are the 4 basic properties of consciousness?
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  • Unity, Awareness, Transcience, Selectivity
  • Selectivity, Unity, Transcience, Intentionality
  • Transcience, Intentionality, Resistance, Awareness
  • Unity, Transcience, Intentionality, Cognition

Question 5

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Intentionality is when you are not directed towards an object.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Unity is our resistance to division.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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What are the two best examples of selectivity?
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  • Dichotic listening, Mocktail effect
  • Cocktail Party, Dichotic Listening
  • Cocktail Party, Mocktail effect
  • Dichotic listening, Libets rule

Question 8

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Transcience is the tendency to change.
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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Which of the following represents full consciousness?
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  • Drinking coffee with friends
  • Reporting your current mental state to a psychologist
  • Driving a car
  • Reporting a missing cat

Question 10

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Check all that apply to minimal consciousness.
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  • being poked while sleeping and turning over
  • forgetting that you were driving for the past 15 mins
  • drinking a coffee on monday morning
  • going to the bathroom in the middle of the night

Question 11

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Which of the following exhibits self consciousness?
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  • Looking at a friends photograph
  • Noticing a pimple on your nose
  • Being aware of who you and your surrounds are
  • Realizing your purpose in life.

Question 12

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What part of the brain is activated during day dreaming?
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  • The pre frontal cortex
  • The medulla
  • Freuds zone
  • The default network

Question 13

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Thought suppression allows us to push thoughts in to our sub conscious so we do not have to think about them.
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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Consciously avoiding a worrisome thought is known as?
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  • Thought repellence
  • Mental control
  • Thought suppression
  • Thought repression

Question 15

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What is the best definition of dynamic unconscious?
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  • A persons hidden thoughts and deepest desires/instincts hidden, and the persons inner struggle to control these forces
  • A mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from the conscious and keeps them in the unconscious.
  • Thought or behaviour influenced by a stimuli that a person can not consciously report perceiving.
  • A persons storage for negative memories and experiences that constantly affects the conscious in making choices, and perceiving things.

Question 16

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What did freud believe in?
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  • Repression, and cognitive unconscious
  • Repression, and subliminal perception
  • Subliminal perception, and dynamic unconscious
  • Repression, and dynamic unconscious

Question 17

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Fox news broadcasted the death of Osama bin Laden as the death of Obama bin Laden, this is also known as...
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  • The freudian unconscious
  • A grammatical error
  • Freudian slip
  • The Freudian law

Question 18

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A group of people exposed to words that link to old age walk slower after hearing the words, this is a sign of?
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  • The cognitive conscious
  • The unconscious
  • Subliminal perception
  • Subliminal messages

Question 19

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Dreams are referred to as an altered state of consciousness.
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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A naturally occurring 24-hour cycle
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  • The hypnopompic cycle
  • The hypnagogic cycle
  • The Joseph rhythm
  • The circadian rhythm

Question 21

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When there is a high frequency of beta waves in our brains we are...
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  • awake
  • drowsy
  • relaxed
  • entering the first stage of sleeping

Question 22

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some one who is feeling fatigued, tired, and sensitive to bone and muscle pain must have woke up during...
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  • REM sleep
  • stage 1 of sleep
  • stage 2 of sleep
  • stage 3 and 4 of sleep

Question 23

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If you have deprivation of REM sleep then you will have more REM sleep the next time you go to bed.
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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Insomnia is
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  • The difficulty to wake up
  • The difficulty to fall asleep
  • frequent night terrors
  • A form of lucid dreaming

Question 25

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Snoring is a sign of which sleeping disorder?
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  • Sleep apnea
  • Insomnia
  • Sleep paralysis
  • Narcolepsy

Question 26

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Which of these people is most likely to be diagnosed with sleep apnea?
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  • Over weight female
  • Under weight male
  • Over weight male
  • middle aged female

Question 27

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Somnambulism and sleep walking are the same thing.
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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which of the following apply to narcolepsy
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  • sleep attack
  • being woken in stage 2 of sleep
  • waking from a dream state
  • intrusion of REM sleep

Question 29

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A dreams apparent topic or superficial meaning is called...
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  • A latent content
  • A manifest content
  • An activation synthesis
  • The primary content

Question 30

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A latent content is
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  • A dreams apparent topic or superficial meaning.
  • The dreams true underlying meaning
  • Part of a dream the is not remembered
  • The most vivid part of a dream.

Question 31

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In freud theory dreams begin no meaning, and in the activation-synthesis theory that begin with meaning.
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  • True
  • False

Question 32

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During REM sleep we may be reminded of stressful or threatening events, this is due to the activity of the...
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  • Medulla
  • The dynamic unconscious
  • The amygdala
  • The pituitary gland

Question 33

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Check all that apply to REM sleep.
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  • The prefrontal cortex is aroused
  • The prefrontal cortex shows less arousal
  • The prefrontal cortex shows no arousal
  • We are not able to plan and execute actions during REM sleep.

Question 34

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Drugs that increase the activity of a neurotransmitter are called?
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  • Antagonists
  • Proactive drugs
  • Agonists
  • Protagonist

Question 35

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antagonists decrease the activity of a neurotransmitter
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  • True
  • False

Question 36

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A person who needs a larger dose of drugs to get high over a certain period of time is an example of
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  • Drug overdose
  • Addiction
  • Drug tolerance
  • Drug withdrawal

Question 37

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Which of the following provides the best definition for depressants
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  • drugs that alter sensation and perception
  • Excites the central nervous system, heightening arousal, and activity levels.
  • Highly addictive form of drug that relieves pain, and stress.
  • substances that reduce activity of the central nervous system

Question 38

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Which of the following is the "king" of depressants
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  • alcohol
  • benzodiazepines
  • marijuana
  • cocaine

Question 39

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The expectancy theory suggests
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  • If you drink alcohol you will feel uplifted and more confident
  • If you drink alcohol you will act like those around you
  • If you have seen the way people act when drunk, you are more likely to act like them when you get drunk
  • If you have been a happy drunk before, you will be a happy drunk again.

Question 40

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which statement resembles the balanced placebo design
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  • Im gonna get drunk off of one beer. *10 mins later, is drunk*
  • Hes drunk because he had 10 beers
  • I can drink 10 beers
  • I am not going to get drunk off of water *does not get drunk*

Question 41

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select all that apply to stimulants
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  • Heighten arousal
  • Lower activity in the brain, and slow down motor functions
  • Allow one to feel deep relaxation
  • increase levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain

Question 42

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Which of the following is not a stimulant
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  • caffeine
  • nicotine
  • ecstasy
  • heroine

Question 43

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stimulants create a dependancy physically and psychologically.
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  • True
  • False

Question 44

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opium comes from sunflower seeds
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  • True
  • False

Question 45

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which of the following is not a narcotic (opiates)
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  • Demerol
  • Codeine
  • heroin
  • metamorphose

Question 46

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select all that apply to narcotics.
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  • relives pain
  • morphine is an example of a narcotic
  • withdrawal symptoms are likely to occur
  • the brains endorphin receptor is artificially flooded.

Question 47

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what percent of time do we spend in REM sleep
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  • 25%
  • 5%
  • 10%
  • 50%

Question 48

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What percent of time do we spend in stage one of sleep
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  • 1%
  • 2%
  • 5%
  • 25%

Question 49

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what percent of time do we spend in stage 3 and 4 of sleep?
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  • 25%
  • 30%
  • 45%
  • 10%

Question 50

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What percent of time do we spend in stage 2 of sleep
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  • 50%
  • 25%
  • 45%
  • 10%

Question 51

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which of the following is not one of the 5 major characteristics of sleep?
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  • not remembering
  • uncritical acceptance
  • meaningful sensation
  • illogical thought
  • vivid imagery
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