Question 1

A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is what Freud called its ________ content.

Accepted Answer

A)   primary
B)   manifest
C)   secondary
D)   latent
E)   tertiary

Question 2

Your telephone number resides in this part of the mind:

Accepted Answer

A)   postconscious
B)   conscious
C)   unconsciou.
D)   collective unconscious
E)   preconsciou.

Question 3

A therapist who analyzes your dreams is most likely to have been trained according to the ________ school of psychology.

Accepted Answer

A)   behaviorism
B)   cognitive
C)   humanisti.
D)   psychoanalyti.
E)   neuroscience

Question 4

Contrast the sleep disorders of insomnia, sleep apnea, sleep terrors, and narcolepsy with regard to key symptoms, known causes, and treatments for each.

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Question 5

How does Ernest Hilgard explain pain reduction through hypnosis?

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A)   Hypnosis increases dopamine levels in the body.
B)   People merely play the role of the hypnotized person and attempt to ignore the pain.
C)   Hypnotized individuals dissociate the experience so that part of the mind is unaware of the pain.
D)   Hypnosis results in an altered state of consciousness that alters brain waves in regions of the brain responsible for the perception of pain.
E)   Hypnosis is a result of a "serotonin storm" occurring in the nucleus accumbens of the brain.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true of daydreams?

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A)   They are more vivid than our most colorful night dreams.
B)   They help us to creatively confront and solve problems.
C)   They are under our control.
D)   They are most common in young adults.
E)   They serve valuable, healthy functions.

Question 7

Manifest content is to latent content as

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A)   obvious is to symbolic.
B)   wish is to fulfillment.
C)   symbolic is to obvious.
D)   unconscious is to conscious.
E)   sexual is to aggressive.

Question 8

Which of the following statements accurately reflects the relationship of the total amount of sleep that an individual receives as a function of age?

Accepted Answer

A)   We require more sleep as we age.
B)   As we age, we tend to get less sleep.
C)   We require much sleep during infancy and early childhood, less sleep in adolescence and early adulthood, and then more sleep in middle and older age.
D)   The amount of sleep we require solely depends on individual difference variables.
E)   We require less sleep when we are younger and when we are older, but more during our middle years.

Question 9

John will likely experience REM rebound tonight if he

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A)   takes a sleeping pill before bed tonight.
B)   drinks too much caffeine prior to sleeping.
C)   did not sleep much last night.
D)   slept more than 8 hours last night.
E)   drinks at least 3 shots of alcohol before going to bed.

Question 10

A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's ________ content.

Accepted Answer

A)   deep
B)   laten.
C)   manifes.
D)   subliminal
E)   supraliminal

Question 11

What technique was used by structuralists to encourage people to report on their own conscious experiences?

Accepted Answer

A)   introspection
B)   self-report questionnaires
C)   biofeedback
D)   classical conditioning
E)   cognitive restructuring

Question 12

Which of the following conditions would you least like the pilot flying your airplane to have?

Accepted Answer

A)   enuresi.
B)   narcoleps.
C)   sleep terror
D)   daytime insomnia
E)   encopresis

Question 13

Structuralists used the technique of ________ to study consciousness.

Accepted Answer

A)   psychoanalysis
B)   experimentation
C)   anima
D)   naturalistic observation
E)   introspection

Question 14

Gruber asked Pamela to say the words folk, soak, and joke. Then, he asked her, "What do you call the white of an egg?" If her reply was "the yolk," rather than the right answer (the albumen, or egg white) , this answer would be evidence for

Accepted Answer

A)   selective attention.
B)   hypnotizability.
C)   priming.
D)   functionalism.
E)   cataplexy.

Question 15

Which of the following is true of dreams?

Accepted Answer

A)   Men are equally likely to dream of children as are women.
B)   Men dream about men twice as often as they dream of women.
C)   Americans seldom dream of being naked in public.
D)   Male dreams are more likely to feature friendly exchanges rather than hostility.
E)   Adults are more likely than children to dream of large, threatening animals.

Question 16

Widely abused illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines are attractive to users because they

Accepted Answer

A)   stimulate the brain's "reward circuits..
B)   helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.
C)   suppress REM sleep.
D)   slow down mental and physical activity.
E)   produce hallucinations and delusions.

Question 17

Morphine and heroin duplicate the action of

Accepted Answer

A)   endorphins
B)   alcoho.
C)   cigarettes
D)   LSD
E)   nicotine

Question 18

Sleeping pills may disrupt the normal sleep cycle and worsen

Accepted Answer

A)   narcolepsy.
B)   daytime sleepiness.
C)   sleep apnea.
D)   insomnia.
E)   cataplexy.

Question 19

A person who needs 9 hours per night but is only allowed to sleep for 6 hours per night would be said to suffer from

Accepted Answer

A)   insomnia.
B)   sleep apnea.
C)   hypersomnia.
D)   a sleep debt.
E)   a circadian cataplexy.

Question 20

If you are awakened from sleep and you feel as though you had not even been asleep, then you were most likely in which stage of sleep?

Accepted Answer

A)   Stage .
B)   Stage 2
C)   Stage 3
D)   Slow wave slee.
E)   REM sleep

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A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is what Freud called its ________ content.

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