In every culture, there are people who push the limits of consciousness and seek altered states of experience. What choices are available with respect to expanding the normal boundaries of consciousness?
Describe the possibilities, including in your description information about lucid dreaming, hypnosis, meditation, and psychoactive drugs.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Altered states of consciousness transcend the normal boundaries of conscious experience. Define and describe lucid dreaming. Discuss hypnosis and suggestibility. Meditation is designed to increase self-awareness. Explain how it might do that. How do drugs affect consciousness? Mention tolerance and dependence.
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a. B. F. Skinner. b. Carl Rogers. c. Wilhelm Wundt. d. Sigmund Freud.
The area of applied psychology MOST stimulated by World War II was
a. quantitative psychology. b. clinical psychology. c. child psychology. d. educational psychology.
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a. neuroticism b. openness to experience c. conscientiousness d. agreeableness
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A) The fetal stage B) The embryonic stage C) The germinal stage D) The implantation stage