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A-Levels Psychology Quiz on Sleep, created by harry_bygraves on 09/06/2013.
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Question 1

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Which is a circadian rhythm?
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  • sleep/wake cycle
  • menstrual cycles
  • Stages of sleep

Question 2

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At what time is core body temperature at its lowest?
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  • 5 pm
  • 5 am
  • 4 am
  • 11 pm

Question 3

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Who spent six months in a cave?
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  • Aschoff and Weber
  • Siffre
  • Folkard et al

Question 4

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Folkard attempted to spped up the body clock of 12 participants to 22 hours how many kept up?
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  • 3
  • 1
  • 2

Question 5

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Duffy found there was a difference in cycle onset which of these is correct?
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  • Morning people (5am to 9am) Evening people (9pm to 12pm)
  • Morning people (6am to 11am) Evening people (11am to 2pm)
  • Morning people (6am to 10pm) Evening people (10am to 1pm

Question 6

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Which is an ultradium rhythm
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  • A biological rhythm last less that 24 hours
  • A biological rhythm lasting more than 24 hours
  • a biological rhythm lasting 24 hours

Question 7

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What type of waves are present in stage one sleep and are changed into slow waves
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  • Delta waves
  • Alpha waves

Question 8

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Which sleep stage are people easily woken from?
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  • Stage one
  • Stage two
  • Stage 3
  • Stage 4
  • REM

Question 9

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Who supports the idea of dreaming in REM sleep?
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  • Dements ans Kleitman
  • Lewy et al

Question 10

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Who studies that menstrual cycles become synchronised due to pheremones?
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  • Turke
  • McClintock and Stern

Question 11

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What is the main endogenous pacemaker
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  • SCN
  • SSN
  • SAN

Question 12

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Who removed chimpmunks SCN and found it lead to more deaths, becuase the chimpmunks were more active and likely to be eaten by predators
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  • Morgan
  • DeCoursey et al

Question 13

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what does zeitgeber mean?
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  • 'Time giver'
  • 'Time maker'
  • 'Time recorder'

Question 14

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Why was light shone on the back of pp knees in Campbell and Murphys study?
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  • The light couldnt reach eyes
  • It is usually dark behind the knee
  • Was the only available piece of skin while the pp were sleeping

Question 15

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Who found that circadian rhythms can be entrained by very dim light, but bright light was more effective?
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  • Boivien et al
  • Buss

Question 16

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What are the two types of shift work?
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  • Fluctuating shifts
  • Non-fluctuation shifts
  • Static shifts
  • Non-static shifts

Question 17

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Who supports the idea that shift workers live contantly out of synchronisaition
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  • Czeisler et al
  • Klein et al

Question 18

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Who supports the idea that shift workers live contantly out of synchronisaition
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  • Czeisler et al
  • Klein et al

Question 19

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How many days did Czeisler change the shift rotations to?
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  • 7
  • 21
  • 22
  • 8
  • 15

Question 20

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Who studied the nurses in shift work?
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  • Hawkins and Armstrong-Ester
  • Me

Question 21

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Which is easier to fly?
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  • East to west
  • West to east

Question 22

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Who condcuted the study in Baseball players?
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  • Klein et al
  • Scwarz et al

Question 23

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Who has the most REM sleep?
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  • old age
  • 1 year olds?

Question 24

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Who sleeps for approximately 12 hours a day?
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  • Old people
  • Five years olds
  • 12 year olds
  • Middle aged

Question 25

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At what age is it likely that sleepwalking has become established?
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  • 1 year olds
  • 5 year olds
  • 12 year olds

Question 26

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Who may wake more for reasons such as needing the toilet?
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  • 5 year olds
  • old aged

Question 27

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Who found males ages 65-88 were more likely to suffer from sleep apnoea? support that the quality of sleep reduces over time?
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  • Dement
  • Floyd et al

Question 28

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What is a main problem with sleep stage research?
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  • Its a longtitudinal study
  • Its a labatory study
  • Its a natural experiment

Question 29

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Meddis proposed which evolutionary explanation of sleep?
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  • Predator-avoidance
  • Hibernation
  • Foraging needs
  • Body size

Question 30

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Which evolutionary explanation did Webb propose?
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  • Predator-avoidant
  • Hibernation theory
  • Forgaing needs
  • Body size

Question 31

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Which researcher reported that sleep saves energy and keeps individuals from being lively at unnecessary times?
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  • Stear
  • Siegal

Question 32

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Who proposed the restoration theory?
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  • Horne
  • Oswald

Question 33

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Adam found what in restoration theories?
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  • That many restorative processes such as digestion occur when awake, supporting Horne?
  • That many restorative process such as digestion occur while asleep support Oswald

Question 34

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Shapiro et al found what about long distance runners
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  • They sleep less than normal
  • They sleep more than normal

Question 35

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What is insomnia?
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  • Any activites that occur unconciously during sleep that would noramlly occur while awake
  • The inability to sleep
  • A problem with staying awake

Question 36

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What factors might affect insomnia?
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  • height
  • age
  • weight
  • gender
  • sleep apnoea
  • hair colour

Question 37

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Who found that if the underlying cause of insomnia was treated the insomnia would stop?
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  • Morin et al
  • Monti

Question 38

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What does sleep walking include?
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  • Sleep dancing
  • Sleep walking
  • Sleep talking
  • Sleep jogging
  • Sleep pulsing

Question 39

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Which is sleepwalking more common in?
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  • Boys
  • Girls

Question 40

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How many times more likely are you likely to be if a first degree relative sleep walks?
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  • 5
  • 10
  • 20

Question 41

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What percentage chance did Hublin et al find that children sleepwalk
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  • 20
  • 30

Question 42

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What do people often think is wrong with people with narcolepsy?
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  • Drunk
  • Druggies
  • Looney

Question 43

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Who supports the role of hypocretin in narcolepsy?
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  • Montplasier
  • Dement

Question 44

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What do narcoleptics often suffer from?
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  • Cataplexy
  • Rataplexy
  • Dataplexy
  • Mataplexy
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