Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions:

• In terms of neural activity, ____ is the least similar to the waking state.
  • Stage 1
    • Incorrect.
  • Stage 2
    • Incorrect.
  • Slow wave sleep
    • Correct.
  • REM
    • Incorrect.
• Sleep studies demonstrate that ____ is the most compromised by sleep deprivation.
  • cognitive function
    • Correct.
  • physical strength
    • Incorrect.
  • physical endurance
    • Incorrect.
  • metabolism
    • Incorrect.
• Which of the following statements about hypnosis is FALSE?
  • Participants must be willing and understand that hypnosis is the point.
    • Incorrect.
  • People under hypnosis do not gain any new physical abilities, only the will to execute them.
    • Incorrect.
  • Research suggests that hypnosis can change people’s perceptual experience.
    • Correct.
  • Hypnosis generates a neural signal similar to Stage 1 sleep.
    • Incorrect.
• Under hypnosis people report ____ and have ____ in their reports.
  • more details; lower accuracy
    • Incorrect.
  • fewer details; greater accuracy
    • Incorrect.
  • more details; higher confidence
    • Correct.
  • fewer details; lower confidence
    • Incorrect.
• Corrie’s friend told her that people under hypnosis will sneeze a lot. A week later at a hypnotist show at her high school Corrie volunteers to be hypnotized and immediately starts sneezing. This is consistent with:
  • the dissociation theory of hypnosis.
    • Incorrect.
  • the placebo theory of hypnosis.
    • Incorrect.
  • the sociocognitive theory of hypnosis.
    • Correct.
  • people faking hypnosis.
    • Incorrect.
• Meditation has been associated with all of the following EXCEPT:
  • improved working memory.
    • Incorrect.
  • decreases in mental health problems.
    • Incorrect.
  • better social relationships.
    • Incorrect.
  • Improved sensory perception.
    • Correct.