Exam 9: Sleep, Wakefulness, and Conscious Awareness

________ decreases the non-REM sleep rebound effects in humans.

Despite their effect of reducing REM sleep, users of ________, do not exhibit cognitive side effects of REM sleep loss.

The echidna does not have REM sleep and its accompanying θ waves but it does have a ________.

How might your sleep patterns look if you lived without any artificial light, instead living with only the light of the sun?

Neurons in the ___________ increase their activity during slow-wave sleep (SWS).

A polysomnograph involves the combined recording of these three physiological measures: ______________.

Sleep, rather than wakefulness, may be the optimal brain context for ________.

Sleep is a passive response to diminished brain activation.

The protection against predators that extended periods of sleep provide is termed ________.

In infected hibernating animals, a rabies virus infection ______________.

The adaptive theory of sleep holds that one purpose of sleep is to allow animals avoid predators.

The ___________ holds that the function of sleep is to provide rest and recovery.

What is an activity that would most likely depend on conscious retrieval of memories?

An ______________ assesses brain wave activity.

___________ are a specific brain wave pattern seen during REM sleep.

Symptoms including excessive sleepiness, intermittent and uncontrollable episodes of sleep during waking hours, muscular weakness, or paralysis known as _________.

Long-term sleep deprivation often leads to a ___________ sleep rebound effect.

The ________ suggests that animals evolved different sleep durations according to which helped them survive best.

Information learned during waking is ________ in hippocampal circuits during sleep.

Night terrors are most often observed in ________.