You have gotten into bed, and your muscles begin to relax when you "jump" in this light sleep and awaken. You have most likely experienced

a. cataplexy.
b. a hypnogogic image episode.
c. somnambulism.
d. a hypnic jerk.


ANSWER: d

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a. maintained by their antecedents and consequences. b. the result of physiological processes. c. adaptive expressions of coping in response to pain. d. due to cognitive distortions and erroneous beliefs.

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As part of his study, Lincoln asks the participants to complete a questionnaire that assesses attitudes towards drinking as well as personal drinking behavior, yielding scores indicating perceived riskiness of underage drinking, perceived acceptability of underage drinking, and risk of engaging in alcohol abuse. Lincoln's approach is best described as ____

a. enhanced qualitative b. modified quantitative c. duplicative d. mixed methods

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Most savant behaviors involve behaviors that are typically a. lateralized to the right hemisphere

b. lateralized to the left hemisphere. c. lateralized. d. managed by subcortical structures.

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Why is it that people in online computer gaming forums or Internet chatrooms may be more likely to speak in aggressive or derogatory manners to other users, compared to the interaction styles they might use when communicating face-to-face?

a) because everyone else in the room usually does that and they are yielding to the effects of normative conformity b) because they usually know how to sever their connection before they can be identified by the person that they are insulting c) because they know that people playing the same games or frequenting the same forums will understand that they are just kidding d) because they experience the deindividuation that is afforded by anonymity

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