WVU PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 3 TEST
QUESTIONS ALL ANSWERED CORRECT
2026/2027 UPDATED.
Consciousness - Answer the awareness of internal and external stimuli
External events - Answer World around you; your environment
Internal sensations - Answer Breathing in and out; meditation
Awareness of self - Answer Thoughts and feelings included/ how it reacts to the environment
Awareness of thoughts and feeling - Answer why you choose one thing or the other; decisions
Motion-Induced Blindness - Answer We can't pay attention to every visual cue going on
around us; what makes you aware of some things but not others
cortical blindness (blindspot) - Answer Responds to visual stimuli without consciously aware;
damage to v1 area; area v5 is intact
Coincident sensations - Answer body awareness regulated by brain mechanisms at the
temporiatal junction
rubber hand illlusion - Answer Brain changes to accommodate the hand; rewires itself to think
that the hand is its own (neuroplasticity)
Low Awareness - Answer Saves mental effort; death, coma, sleep, day dreaming, non-
conscious processing
Priming - Answer Sub-concious low awareness; process that exposes people to one stimulus
that makes certain thoughts, feelings or behaviors more salient
priming examples - Answer -seeing a word search with negative words you would have
negative perception
-hearing someone talk about a red hat then moments later seeing someone wearing a red hat
, High Awareness - Answer Uses mental effort; decision making, mindfulness, problem solving;
relaxed state with decreased self-self-concious
Mindfulness - Answer Happens at high level of awareness; understanding why you feel a
certain way
Flexible Correction Model - Answer Self correct when being bias, knowing incorrect; we think
highly of ourselves and start forgetting info
Hypnosis - Answer Relies on dissociation and reduced critical thinking; ''this isn't happening to
me"
Dissociation - Answer Disconnect between ones awareness of. their environment and the one
object the person is focusing on
Hypnotherapy - Answer Most uses are controversial and not necessarily effective; does not
improve memory, can't retrieve lost memories, can help relax, not mind control, reduces ability
to be worried or anxious
Stage 1 (NREM) - Answer NREM; brief transitional stage of light sleep; EEG activity is rapid but
low amplified brain wave
Stage 2 (NREM) - Answer NREM; Sleep spindles with mixed EEG activity. Breathing, respiration,
muscle tone, body temperature, and heart rate decline; slower waves and more consistent
Stage 3 & 4 (NREM) - Answer NREM; low-frequency delta waves are prominent. Reach slow-
wave sleep in an hour, and after about 30 minutes begin to move back up through the stages of
sleep. Difficult to wake someone in slow-wave sleep.
Stage 5 - Answer REM; high-frequency beta waves & vivid dreams, paralyzed except for eye
movements
Alcohol & Caffeine - Answer Alcohol: influences deep sleep wand tendency to wake up a lot
Caffeine: keeps you up, restless sleep
Melatonin - Answer Drowziness, helps sleep, darkness; natural hormone secreted by your
body to help you sleep
QUESTIONS ALL ANSWERED CORRECT
2026/2027 UPDATED.
Consciousness - Answer the awareness of internal and external stimuli
External events - Answer World around you; your environment
Internal sensations - Answer Breathing in and out; meditation
Awareness of self - Answer Thoughts and feelings included/ how it reacts to the environment
Awareness of thoughts and feeling - Answer why you choose one thing or the other; decisions
Motion-Induced Blindness - Answer We can't pay attention to every visual cue going on
around us; what makes you aware of some things but not others
cortical blindness (blindspot) - Answer Responds to visual stimuli without consciously aware;
damage to v1 area; area v5 is intact
Coincident sensations - Answer body awareness regulated by brain mechanisms at the
temporiatal junction
rubber hand illlusion - Answer Brain changes to accommodate the hand; rewires itself to think
that the hand is its own (neuroplasticity)
Low Awareness - Answer Saves mental effort; death, coma, sleep, day dreaming, non-
conscious processing
Priming - Answer Sub-concious low awareness; process that exposes people to one stimulus
that makes certain thoughts, feelings or behaviors more salient
priming examples - Answer -seeing a word search with negative words you would have
negative perception
-hearing someone talk about a red hat then moments later seeing someone wearing a red hat
, High Awareness - Answer Uses mental effort; decision making, mindfulness, problem solving;
relaxed state with decreased self-self-concious
Mindfulness - Answer Happens at high level of awareness; understanding why you feel a
certain way
Flexible Correction Model - Answer Self correct when being bias, knowing incorrect; we think
highly of ourselves and start forgetting info
Hypnosis - Answer Relies on dissociation and reduced critical thinking; ''this isn't happening to
me"
Dissociation - Answer Disconnect between ones awareness of. their environment and the one
object the person is focusing on
Hypnotherapy - Answer Most uses are controversial and not necessarily effective; does not
improve memory, can't retrieve lost memories, can help relax, not mind control, reduces ability
to be worried or anxious
Stage 1 (NREM) - Answer NREM; brief transitional stage of light sleep; EEG activity is rapid but
low amplified brain wave
Stage 2 (NREM) - Answer NREM; Sleep spindles with mixed EEG activity. Breathing, respiration,
muscle tone, body temperature, and heart rate decline; slower waves and more consistent
Stage 3 & 4 (NREM) - Answer NREM; low-frequency delta waves are prominent. Reach slow-
wave sleep in an hour, and after about 30 minutes begin to move back up through the stages of
sleep. Difficult to wake someone in slow-wave sleep.
Stage 5 - Answer REM; high-frequency beta waves & vivid dreams, paralyzed except for eye
movements
Alcohol & Caffeine - Answer Alcohol: influences deep sleep wand tendency to wake up a lot
Caffeine: keeps you up, restless sleep
Melatonin - Answer Drowziness, helps sleep, darkness; natural hormone secreted by your
body to help you sleep
