Module 8 - Sleep and Dreams - Quiz #2

Evidence suggests that we consolidate our memories of recent life events through

REM sleep.

Which of the following is the best advice for a person concerned about occasional insomnia?

Relax and drink a glass of milk before bedtime.

At 1:00 a.m., Luis gets out of bed and begins to sleepwalk. An EEG of his brain activity is most likely to indicate the presence of

delta waves.

Night terrors typically occur

during NREM-3 sleep.

Narcolepsy is a disorder in which a person

experiences uncontrollable attacks of overwhelming sleepiness.

After suffering a trauma, people commonly report nightmares. One of the benefits of these nightmares is that they help

extinguish daytime fears.

The part of the brain called our biological clock because it regulates our sleep wake cycle is the

hypothalamus.

Traffic accident rates have been found to _____ after the spring change to daylight savings time and to _____ after the fall change back to standard time.

increase; decrease

REM sleep is

inhibited by alcohol and inhibited by sleeping pills.

The best time for athletes to engage in heavy exercise workouts is

late afternoon or early evening.

Freud called the remembered story line of a dream its _____ content.

manifest

Compared with adults, children are

more likely to experience night terrors and more likely to experience sleepwalking.

The absence of a hypothalamic neural center that produces orexin has been linked to

narcolepsy.

Research studies of the content of dreams indicate that

people are more likely to dream of failure than of success.

In which of the following disorders does the person repeatedly stop breathing while asleep?

sleep apnea