PSYC 2000 DANIEL CAPRON LSU
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS SET TESTED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Waking Consciousness (normal consciousness)
Answer: state in which thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear,
organized, while awake.
●● Altered State of Consciousness
Answer: a temporary change in the overall pattern of subjective
experience, such that the individual believes that his or her mental
functioning is distinctly different from certain general norms for his or
her normal waking state of consciousness.
●● REM sleep
Answer: Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during
which vivid dreams commonly occur and paralysis of voluntary muscles
●● Night terrors
Answer: sleeper experiences a sense of panic and may scream of attempt
to escape and only occur in non-REM.
, ●● What happens to people and animals when sleep deprived over
extended periods of time?
Answer: changes in mood, impaired memory, weakened immune
system, obesity, and sometimes in extreme cases, death.
●● Why Do We Sleep? (Theories)
Answer: Adaptive function and Cognitive Function
●● Adaptive Function
Answer: Sleep is essential to restore resources that are expended during
the day and is an adaptive response to predatory risks, which increase in
darkness.
●● Cognitive Function
Answer: Focuses on sleeps importance for cognitive function and
memory formation.
●● Manifest Content
Answer: the actual content of the dream
●● Latent Content
Answer: according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as
distinct from its manifest content)
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS SET TESTED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Waking Consciousness (normal consciousness)
Answer: state in which thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear,
organized, while awake.
●● Altered State of Consciousness
Answer: a temporary change in the overall pattern of subjective
experience, such that the individual believes that his or her mental
functioning is distinctly different from certain general norms for his or
her normal waking state of consciousness.
●● REM sleep
Answer: Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during
which vivid dreams commonly occur and paralysis of voluntary muscles
●● Night terrors
Answer: sleeper experiences a sense of panic and may scream of attempt
to escape and only occur in non-REM.
, ●● What happens to people and animals when sleep deprived over
extended periods of time?
Answer: changes in mood, impaired memory, weakened immune
system, obesity, and sometimes in extreme cases, death.
●● Why Do We Sleep? (Theories)
Answer: Adaptive function and Cognitive Function
●● Adaptive Function
Answer: Sleep is essential to restore resources that are expended during
the day and is an adaptive response to predatory risks, which increase in
darkness.
●● Cognitive Function
Answer: Focuses on sleeps importance for cognitive function and
memory formation.
●● Manifest Content
Answer: the actual content of the dream
●● Latent Content
Answer: according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as
distinct from its manifest content)
