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| Drugs that speed up the functioning of the nervous system are called _____. |
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| Our awareness of various mental processes such as making decisions, daydreaming, reflection, and concentrating is called _____. |
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| What do we call a state of consciousness that can result from the use of alcohol, drugs, or hypnosis? |
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| Altered state of consciousness |
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| The oval window, cochlea, and basilar membrane are all part of the: |
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| What term do sleep researchers use to designate stages 1-4 of sleep? |
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| The change in the shape of the lens in order to focus on a visual image is known as _____. |
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| If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a greenish image of the object. This phenomenon best supports the: |
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| The idea that the eye contains separate receptors for red, green, and blue, is known as the ____ theory. |
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| When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones of Ann through earphones. The tones started at a low intensity and then became louder. The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she stated to hear a sound. The doctor was testing Ann's ______. |
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| Jim is 56 years old and slightly overweight. His wife reports that he snores loudly. What sleep disorder seems to fit Jim's symptoms? |
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| What are the five primary tastes? |
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| The sense of smell is also known as ______. |
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Your brain waves are being monitored in a sleep laboratory. If you are in deep sleep less than an hour after falling asleep, what brain waves will be detected?
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| Morphine, heroin, and methadone _____. |
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Visual distance and depth cues that require the use of both eyes are called _____.
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| If you are watching sleep researchers monitor the sleep of a normal adult. The participant is hooked up to an EEG. What brain waves would you observe as the person becomes drowsy and then enters the first stage of sleep? |
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| Alpha waves then replaced by theta |
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| When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor struck several tuning forks, each of which vibrated at a distinct pitch, and asked her to choose two tones that sounded almost the same in pitch. The doctor was testing Ann's _____. |
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| Bone condition and mastoid process |
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| The saying, "Birds of a feather flock together" is most closely aligned with the ____ principle of perceptual organization. |
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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 as a terminal. The therapist suggests that the "terminal" in the dream indicates an unconscious desire by the client to "terminate" his boss. This desire to terminate the boss, if it exists, would reflect what Freud called the _____ content of the dream. |
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| Daydreaming, meditation, intoxication, sleep, and hypnosis are all types of _____. |
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| Altered state of consciousness |
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| Which of the following choices is NOT a monocular cue that painters can incorporate into their work to convey information about the relative distances of objects? |
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| What is the basic function of the outer ear? |
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| You are listening to a person who keeps telling you to relax, attempting to create situation in which you are likely to follow suggestion. What treatement are you undergoing? |
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| What is the pupil of the eye? |
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| Allows light to enter cornea |
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| When light waves enter the eye, they first pass through the ______. |
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| The principle that the just noticeable difference of any given sense is a constant fraction or proportion of the stimulus being judged is called ______. |
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| Receptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision and fine acuity are _____. |
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| The skin senses are concerned with _____. |
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| A biological cycle, or rhythm, that is approximately 24 hours long is called a(n) _____ cycle. |
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| The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves is called _____. |
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| A newspaper advertisement describes a book that offers interpretations of dreams. In attempting to tell readers the meaning of the symbols of their dreams, the author intends to describe the ______. |
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| You are telling a joke to your friend who is laughing uproariously and then suddenly collapses to the floor. You are not surprised to later learn that he has a sleep disorder known as ______. |
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| To treat your sleep problem you are told that you should not nap, you should set your alarm clock to wake up at the same time each day, and you should get our of bed if you cannot sleep. What sleep disorder have you been experiencing? |
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| If you have been waking up too early for several weeks, you are probably suffering from ______. |
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| The tendency to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern is known as _____. |
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| Which of the following properties of sound would be the most similar to the color, or hue, of light? |
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| Periods of REM sleep alternate with periods of non-REM sleep in a cycle that recurs about every ____ minutes or so. |
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| Dr. Delmar wants to determine how loud a certain noise must be in order for it to be heard from a distance of 50 feet. Her question involves the concept of: |
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| Our awareness of various mental processes, such as making decisions, daydreaming, reflecting, and concentrating, is called _____. |
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| The bone that is attached to the eardrum is called the _____; the bone that is connected to the oval window is called the ______. |
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| The clear, transparent protective coating over the front part of the eye is the ______. |
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| Cells that are triggered by the light, vibrations, sounds, touch, or chemical substances are called _______. |
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