1. Your different levels of awareness of thoughts and feelings is called:
a. Apnea
b. Perception
c. Identity
d. Consciousness
2. We naturally think in terms of the two states called "conscious" and "unconscious," but actually there:
a. are three states, including the "high" from drugs
b. are four states: conscious, drowsy, dreaming, and unconscious
c. is a continuum of consciousness
d. is no measurable difference between consciousness and unconsciousness
3. Activities, such as studying for an exam, which require full awareness and concentration are called:
a. automatic processes
b. conscious processes
c. focused processes
d. controlled processes
4. Psychologists call activities that require full awareness, alertness, and concentration:
a. automatic processes
b. altered states
c. Comas
d. controlled processes
5. Although Christine is concentrating on reading her psychology book, she can also eat her breakfast, brush her hair, and put on her nail polish without interfering with her studying. For Christine, these other activities are called:
a. automatic processes
b. subliminal processes
c. uncontrolled processes
d. unconscious processes
6. What appears to be a function of daydreaming?
a. to act as a safety valve to release pent-up sexual desires
b. to facilitate the release of growth hormones
c. to remind us of important things in the future
d. to encode memories into the unconscious mind
7. Young David is being wheeled into the operating room for surgery and the preoperative drugs are having an effect. His eyes are open, but his perception of the world around him, the voices of the surgical team, and the faces of his relatives are very different than normal. At what point along the continuum of consciousness is David most likely to be?
a. Daydreaming
b. Unconsciousness
c. altered states
d. cognitive preconscious
8. ____ refers to awareness that differs from normal consciousness.
a. Automatic processes
b. Cognitive unconscious
c. Controlled processes
d. Altered states