Which of the following lacks consciousness?

Daisy and Maisy are identical twins who report literally feeling each other’s pain. For example, when Daisy cut her finger while chopping vegetables, across town, Maisy’s finger stung. If their claim is valid, which of the following features of consciousness would it challenge?

A researcher affixes tape in the shape of an X to an elephant’s left temple and leads her to a mirror. The elephant repeatedly swings her trunk up toward the X on her left temple, and not toward her right temple. What can we infer about the elephant?

The “mind–body” problem could be “solved” if

According to Descartes’s theory of conscious experience, if someone were to present you with an image of a rabbit, it would be processed in ______ area(s) of the brain. Dennett disagreed, citing evidence that stimuli are processed in ______ area(s) of the brain.

Relative to Western theories of consciousness, Eastern theories are

The evolutionary advantage of consciousness is that it enables us to combine information. Which of the following decisions most required this skill?

Under anesthesia, activity in the thalamo-cortical circuits decreases. Because these are the circuits associated with the ability to combine information, it would appear that the ability to combine information is

You are asleep. Your heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure are highly variable. You may even be experiencing sexual arousal. You are probably in which of the following stages of sleep?

Researchers wishing to understand whether circadian rhythms are caused by the environment or by our biology brought participants into a lab and manipulated whether the day was 20 or 28 hours long. They found that both groups’ bodily rhythms varied on a 24-hour cycle. On the basis of this study alone, what should they have concluded?

You have been extraordinarily busy lately. To create more time in the day, you sacrifice two hours of sleep a night, so that you have been getting about six hours per night for the past two weeks. What will be the likely effect?

Sleep apnea has been linked to heart failure and to obesity. Based on this, what can we conclude about the relationship between these three conditions?

Of the three dream theories discussed in the text, which is the least well equipped to explain why dreams sometimes are bizarre?

Which of the following pieces of information most convincingly argues against the idea that a subject’s behavior during hypnosis is due to the social role effect?

Which of the following substances can your body produce on its own, especially during exercise?