Exam 9: Wakefulness and Sleep

Young adults deprived of a night's sleep show deficits on ____ tasks.

The probability of sleep apnea is increased among which group of people?

In comparison to NREM dreams, REM dreams:

What is paradoxical about paradoxical sleep?

Animals produce endogenous circadian rhythms that last about a day.

A disruption of circadian rhythms due to crossing time zones is known as jet lag.

After removing all sensory input to the brain, an animal would continue to have periods of sleep and wakefulness.

Biological clocks are very resistant to environmental influences.

When does sleep walking occur?

A person's circadian activity cycle would most likely drift out of phase with the activity of other people if the person:

Alpha waves are characteristic of relaxation, not of all wakefulness.

The mean preferred time of going to sleep gets later and later until about age 20 and then starts a gradual reversal.

What happens if people are put in an environment that is constantly dark?

Compared to REM, research suggests that NREM is:

Loss of orexin-containing neurons in the hypothalamus may contribute to:

REM behavior disorder occurs mostly in:

Grazing animals that need to eat for many hours per day get less sleep than carnivores because:

Typically, a person who falls asleep enters:

Which hypothesis/theory suggests that the primary motor cortex is suppressed so arousal during sleep cannot lead to action?

A person who is taking an antidepressant that increases serotonin or norepinephrine levels in the brain is most likely to have: