SLEEP Flashcards
(10 cards)
what is a dimension of sleep health?
continuity
timing
alertness
what is a characteristic of teenagers who are extreme evening types?
get worse grades than their ability would predict
slow, large-amp EEG waves characterize what stage of sleep?
stage 4
at which time, is stage 4 sleep most common?
during the early part of a night’s sleep
how do dolphins handle breathing while asleep?
half of brain sleep, while other remains awake to keep head above water
if we want to predict how many hours a day some species sleep, what is helpful to making that prediction?
what animal eats
the confounding variable of _______ means it is difficult to interp results of studies into sleep dep
stress
what is affected by short-term sleep dep?
working memory
psychomotor speed
lateral thinking
what is associated with adaptation hypothesis of sleep?
sleep is not a higher-order human func
association between vuln to pred and sleep duration
analogous to hibernation
what can lead to increased deep sleep?
alcohol
deprived slow-wave sleep the previous night