Stimulant drugs have all of the following effects EXCEPT:
Preeti tried a new drug. She noticed that her mood was improved, but she was also
... [Show More] restless, had an elevated heart rate, and had trouble sleeping several hours later. The drug was most likely a:
Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding consciousness?
The shapes in an advertisement subtly spell-out a positive word. Most people do not notice the word. The advertisers are using:
According to research on hypnosis, what is the most important factor for hypnosis to work?
Which of the following actions is LEAST likely to occur unconsciously?
In order to most effectively alter behavior, subliminal messages should target a person’s:
REM sleep is paradoxical because:
Which of the following is NOT an example of an altered state of consciousness similar to meditation?
After using a recreational drug at a party, Fawn became energetic, talkative, and lively. Which of the following drugs is mostly likely to produce these effects?
Why is REM sleep called paradoxical sleep?
The need to use a drug regularly is termed:
Which of the following statements is NOT a theory suggested to explain gender differences in alcohol consumption?
Which of the following brain areas is responsible for secreting melatonin?
Lucy tried a new drug. She noticed that she felt alert, sociable, and wide awake. Which of the following neurotransmitter systems did the drug most likely affect?
The particular kind of experience that is so engrossing and enjoyable that you do it for its own sake, rather than because of its consequence, is called:
The processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness is referred to as:
A split-brain patient is shown a frog in her right visual field. She is asked to identify what she sees. She would most likely be able to:
According to cross-cultural studies, consume the most alcohol.
To be considered a stimulant, a drug must both activity.
In Freud’s book, The Interpretation of Dreams, the symbolic meaning of a dream is referred to as:
Which of the following is NOT likely a purpose of sleep?
Which of the following people is most likely to experience insomnia?
If you were relaxed with your eyes closed and were given an EEG, what type of brain waves would show up on your EEG?
Methamphetamine and cocaine differ in which of the following ways?
Hannah is having dinner at a Mexican restaurant. When she tries the three kinds of sauces to see how hot they are, she is assessing differences. When she compares the taste of her margarita to the taste of her friend’s Mexican beer, she is assessing a
A(n) is the minimum intensity of sensory stimulation required before the sensation is detected 50 percent of the time.
Dolphins and bats are able to echolocate, meaning they can detect the locations of objects in their environment by certain waves of energy emitted or reflected by those objects. Which of the following might dolphins and bats have that humans do not?
Rachel was in an auto accident and now has a form of object agnosia. She has perfectly accurate 20/20 vision, but she cannot recognize the differences between animals when she sees them. For example, she cannot tell the difference between a giraffe and a zebra. Joel has a degenerative illness that has affected his retinae but is otherwise normal in all of his mental functioning. Which of the following statements is most accurate?
When Angelica plunges her hand into a bucket of ice water, axons immediately carry pain information to her brain. When Erica sprains her ankle playing soccer, axons carry pain information to her brain for weeks.
When Jodi walks from the sunlight into a dark theater, her causes her to enlarge.
On Monday, Manuel interviewed for a job that he really wants. The interviewer told Manuel that he would call on Friday to tell Manuel if he got the job. On late Friday afternoon, Manuel is in the shower, straining to hear the phone above the noise of the water. Whenever he hears a sound, he thinks it is the phone. Manuel is showing
, a concept described in .
The optic nerve is composed of axons of:
Taj wants to create a robot that has sensation but not perception. The robot should:
Recently, it has been discovered that some people have an extra type of cone other than the three that most people with normal color vision have. What might be different for a person with a fourth type of
Haptic experiences are the result of:
How do the light waves reflected by a blue object differ from those reflected by a red object?
During transduction, most sensory information is transmitted first to the
before it is sent to the , where it is interpreted as sight, sound, touch, or taste.
Based on your knowledge of Signal Detection Theory, which of the following might be easiest for a participant in an experiment to
Daniel is standing on the outside platform of the train station. He is looking down the tracks hoping to see his train. As the tracks get farther from him the two sides of the tracks will appear to , providing the depth cue of .
In visual processing, ventral is to dorsal as:
Which subfield of psychology studies the relationship between physical stimuli and the psychological experiences they produce?
Wavelengths of light are to constancy as differences in light reflected off various objects are to constancy.
Yellow is considered one of the primary colors, but there is no cone specialized to respond to yellow light. When we see yellow, it is because the light is stimulating the:
Juan and Joseph are opera singers. Juan is a baritone. Joseph is a tenor; his voice is higher-pitched. With respect to their physical properties, the sound waves corresponding to Juan’s voice are lower in
than those corresponding to Joseph’s voice; that is, they
Leonardo da Vinci identified many monocular (pictorial) depth cues, including , in which a near object blocks an object that is farther away.
The point at which the optic nerves meet and then split is termed the optic:
After being in a car crash, Yuri has the selective inability to recognize faces. He is most likely suffering from due to damage to his .
Which of the following statements best describes the path of optic nerve impulses in the brain?
If the ventral stream of your visual cortex were not working temporarily, you would be unable to understand an object is; but if your dorsal stream was still functioning, you could understand an object is. [Show Less]