Explanations Of Sleep

Question 1

Meddis

Answer 1

Some animals sleep as it protects them from predators when they are unable to complete usual tasks such as scavenging for food

Question 2

Sigel

Answer 2

Animals had less risk of injury when asleep

Question 3

Allison and Ciccheti (Evaluation)

Answer 3

Prey sleep more than predators

Question 4

Bently (Evaluation)

Answer 4

Implications of sleep such as snoring are more likely to increase vulnrability as they attract attention of predators

Question 5

Berger and Phillips

Answer 5

Smaller animals have high Basal Metabolic Rates, therefore need more sleep

Question 6

Adam

Answer 6

Proccesses such as our digestive system and protein synthesis occur when we are still asleep

Question 7

Horne (Evaluation)

Answer 7

Amino acids are only active five hours after eating a meal

Question 8

Sterne and Morgan

Answer 8

Once participants returned to having REM sleep (after being deprived of it), the amount of REM sleep each preson got increased

Question 9

Micheal Corke

Answer 9

Fatal Famille insomnia = after 4 months of being diagnosed, he was unable to walk and talk

Question 10

Randy Gardener

Answer 10

Stayed awake for nearly 11 days. He has slurred speech, blurred vision and signs of paranoia toward the end. However his mind and body did seem to recover afterwards

Question 11

Peter Tripp

Answer 11

Stayed awake for a radio broadcast for 201 hours. After two days he had visions of bugs crawling on the table and after 110 hours he displayed signs of delerium. It took 24 hours for his sleeping pattern to go back to normal

Question 12

Everson

Answer 12

When rats were deprived of sleep, they had a high metabloism, huge weight loss and as a result they died

Question 13

Dement

Answer 13

Each time a cat went into REM sleep, they would fall into water. After the cats went 35 day without REM sleep they died