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Sleep apnea can increase the risk for _____.

heart disease

Strong out-of-body sensations and other near-death phenomena occur in volunteers using _____.

ketamine

Exposure to ____ is a known risk factor for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

tobacco smoke

Muscle paralysis that lingers with narcolepsy once the person awakes can be resolved by

touching the person

After a period of _____, most coma patients recover, move to a vegetative state, or die.

2 to 4 weeks

The inhibition of which neurotransmitter contributes to the onset of seizure activity?

GABA

_____ during the cycle for which animals are poorly equipped for activity might contribute to survival.

Sleeping

_________coined the term "stream of consciousness" to capture the moving, seemingly unbroken, flow of conscious awareness.

William James

A person in a vegetative state is not responsive to pain.

false

Technologies do NOT artificially maintain certain bodily functions such as respiration and blood circulation.

false

According to the Turing Test, if a human had a conversation with two other beings, one human and one machine, without being able to distinguish between them, then the machine would have _____.

passed the test

Twin studies suggest that there is a genetic predisposition to _____.

sleep terrors

Alicia is fascinated to learn about the Native American practice of vision quests in her Native American cultures class. She learns that to initiate an altered state of consciousness, Native Americans would engage in ____.

starvation and sleep loss

What type of brain waveforms does a person in REM sleep display before being awakened?

Beta wave

What is the evidence to suggest that abrupt changes to one's daily schedule are detrimental to human behavior?

Changing to daylight savings time correlates with increased automobile accidents.

Varying states of awareness can be described using ____ recordings, which provide a general measure of overall brain activity.

EEG

_____ is NOT a common cause for maintenance insomnia.

Eating late at night

What is true of opiates?

Opiates have legitimate medical purposes, such as the control of diarrhea.

Dreams of not being able to move in a dangerous situation might accurately mirror muscle paralysis present during the ___ state

REM

Tao wakes up his roommate Don so that he doesn't miss his morning classes again. Don tells Tao, "I wish you hadn't woken me up, I was about to land on Mars after winning a fierce battle against flying jellyfish." Don was most likely in ____.

REM sleep

How much more activity does the brain exhibit when it is focused on an activity?

The brain exhibits about 5% more activity when a person is focused compared with when they are unfocused

Why do scientists believe a human infant spends about half of his or her sleep time in REM?

To provide the stimulation necessary to facilitate brain wiring

When Gregg first started drinking alcohol, he needed only one or two beers to feel "buzzed"; now he needs at least four or five beers before he feels anything. What process describes Gregg's need for more alcohol before feeling its effects?

Tolerance

Recent research focusing on morning people (larks) and night people (owls) suggests that ________.

being a lark or an owl may be due to genetic influence

RLS is characterized by differences in _____ functioning.

dopamine