Chapter 8
Biological Psychology · 11 exercises
Problem 1
What evidence indicates that humans have an internal biological clock?
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Problem 2
Why do people at the eastern edge of Germany awaken earlier than those at the western edge on their weekends and holidays?
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Problem 8
How can an investigator determine whether a sleeper is in REM sleep?
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Problem 9
During which part of a night's sleep is REM most common?
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Problem 10
Why do most antihistamines make people drowsy?
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Problem 11
What would happen to the sleep-wake schedule of someone who lacked orexin?
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Problem 13
Someone who has just awakened sometimes speaks in a loose, unconnected, illogical way. How could you explain this finding?
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Problem 14
What kinds of people are most likely to develop sleep apnea?
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Problem 15
What is the relationship between orexin and narcolepsy?
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Problem 19
What kinds of individuals get more REM sleep than others? (Think in terms of age, species, and long versus short sleepers.)
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Problem 20
What is a key point of disagreement between the activation-synthesis hypothesis and the clinicoanatomical hypothesis?
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