FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH

UNIT 4 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Selective attention

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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus as in the cocktail party effect

Question 2: Delta waves

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The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

Question 3: Physical dependence

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A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued

Question 4: Consciousness

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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 5: Substance use disorder

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Continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruption and or physical risk

Question 6: THC

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The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations.

Question 7: Activation synthesis theory

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The dream theory that suggests that we dream so that we can process and make sense of our sensory experiences throughout the day. As if dreams are our way to make sense of our experiences during the day.

Question 8: The Interpretation of Dreams

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Freud's book where he offered his theory of wish-fulfillment

Question 9: Melatonin

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Sleep inducing hormone

Question 10: Hypocretin

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An alerting neurotransmitter that seems to be missing in narcolepsy

Question 11: Wish Fulfillment

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Was Freud's dream theory name. Part of psychoanalysis therapy is to examine the latent (hidden) content of a dream and the therapist interprets the meaning.

Question 12: Dualists

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The presumption that the mind and body are two distinct entities that interact

Question 13: Barbituates

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A group of depressants that reduce anxiety and impair memory and judgment. Known as tranquilizers.

Question 14: Innattentional blindness

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Failing to see objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Question 15: Tolerance

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The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger

Question 16: Neuroadaptation

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the process in which the brain adapts its chemistry to offset the drug effect

Question 17: Theta waves

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Common waves that help transition a person into deep sleep. So this includes brain waves in stage 2 & stage 3 sleep or NREM-3

Question 18: Manifest content

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According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent, or hidden, content)

Question 19: Monists

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The presumption that the mind and body are different aspects of the same thing.

Question 20: Psychological dependence

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A psychological need to use a drug such as to relieve negative emotions

Question 21: Superchiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus

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The part of the brain that monitors light-sensitive proteins and signals the hypothalamus to make changes to hormones thus allowing us to go to sleep or wake up

Question 22: Choice blindness

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Failing to hear changes in sound

Question 23: Seasonal Affective Disorder

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A mood disorder that seems to appear during the darkened winter months

Question 24: Beta waves

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Brain waves that indicate that the brain is alert and active. Common when a person is awake and engaged, also when a person is experiencing REM sleep.

Question 25: Sleep talking/sleep walking

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Disorder that most often occurs in stage 4 sleep (deep sleep) also known as NREM-3. Usually more common in children and might be genetic.

Question 26: Latent content

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According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content). Freud believed that a dream's latent content functions as a safety value.

Question 27: Withdrawal

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The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug

Question 28: Circadian rhythm

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the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle