Chapter 14 Sleep

Question 1

The case of miss m is interesting because

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Although she slept little she appeared to be health productive and well adjusted

Question 2

The EOG is a measure of

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Eye movement.

Question 3

The first night phenomenon is often experienced

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On a volunteers first night of sleep in a laboratory

Question 4

The 8 to 12 Hz EEG waves that are often associated with relaxed wakefulness are called

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Alpha waves

Question 5

The first EEG stage of a nights sleep is

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Initial stage 1

Question 6

Sleep spindles and K complexes are characteristics of

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Stage 2 sleep

Question 7

Delta waves the largest EEG sleep waves occur in the stage

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3 and 4 EEG sleep

Question 8

The stage of sleep EEG that follows the second bout of stage 2 sleep during a normal nights sleep is

Answer 8

Emergent stage 1

Question 9

Which does not belong with the others ? Dreaming , emergent stage 1 EEG , R.E.M. , initial stage 1 EEG , loss of core muscle tone

Answer 9

Initial stage 1 EEG

Question 10

According to hobsons activation synthesis theory of dreaming dream content reflects

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Random brain stem activity and the cortexs inherent tendency to try to make sense of these signals

Question 11

Dreaming appears to occur most commonly during

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REM sleep

Question 12

Which of the following animals spend about 14 hours per day sleeping

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Cats

Question 13

According to the text , which theory of sleep does the best job of explaining why there are such large differences in the amount of time that the members of various mammalian species spend sleeping

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Circadian theory

Question 14

The large between species differences in sleep time suggest that sleep

Answer 14

Is not necessarily needed in large quantities

Question 15

In the entire week after being totally deprived of sleep for 11 days randy Gardner slept a total of about ____ hours more than usual

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6

Question 16

Which of the following is most likely to occur after the loss of a small amount of sleep

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Disturbances of vigilance

Question 17

Micro sleeps are usually about ___ long

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3 seconds

Question 18

During microsleep people

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Become less responsive to external stimuli and display a sleep EEG

Question 19

The carousel apparatus has been used to study sleep deprivation in

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Rats

Question 20

The main advantage of the carousel apparatus is that

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The yoked control procedure is an integral part of it

Question 21

The effects of the carousel apparatus are difficult to interpret because

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In addition of producing sleep deprivation it produces confounding stress

Question 22

After an entire week of R.E.M. Sleep deprivation about how many times in one night did volunteers have to be awakened to prevent them from experiencing bouts of R.E.M. Sleep

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67

Question 23

Following the completion of one week of R.E.M. Sleep deprivation volunteers

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Have a greater than usually proportion of R.E.M. Sleep for 2 or 3 nights

Question 24

According to the default theory R.E.M. Sleep and

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Wakefulness are similar

Question 25

Volunteers regain little of their lost sleep after a period of sleep deprivation but they regain much of their lost

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Stage 4 sleep

Question 26

The finding that sleep is more efficient in people who regularly sleep less is a key finding because it indicates that

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Sleep deprivation studies can indicate how much sleep people actually need only if the volunteers who are being studied are efficient sleepers to begin with

Question 27

Which of the following are commonly prescribed as hypnotics

Answer 27

Benzodiazepines

Question 28

Melatonin is synthesized from

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Serotonin

Question 29

Disorders of excessive sleep or sleepiness are classified as

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Hypersomnia

Question 30

In various surveys approximately ____ of the respondents report sleep related problems

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30%

Question 31

Many cases of insomnia appear to be

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Iatrogenic

Question 32

Paradoxically insomnia is often caused by

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Hypnotic drugs

Question 33

A large group of patients who sought treatment for insomnia were found in one study to sleep ____ hours per night

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6.5

Question 34

A condition in which a persons sleep is repeatedly disrupted by the inability to breath is called

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Sleep apnea

Question 35

Sleep apnea is more common in

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The elderly , men , the overweight

Question 36

Narcolepsy is most often considered to be a disorder of

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Hypersomnia

Question 37

When they fall asleep narcoleptic immediately

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Go into R.E.M. Sleep

Question 38

Cataplexy is common in cases of

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Narcolepsy

Question 39

In one study volunteers gradually reduced the number of hours that they slept each night until they felt that they had reached their limit on the average this limit was

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5 hours

Question 40

Interest in the efficiency of polyphasic sleep was stimulated by stories of

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 41

Polyphasic sleep reduction studies demonstrate that some people can function reasonably well on as little as ___ hours of polyphasic sleep per day

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2.5 hours

Question 42

Several large scale longitudinal studies documented the sleep patterns and health of healthy volunteers for several years , they found that people who slept ___ hours per night tended to live the longest

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Between 5-7