Summarize what is known about how culture influences sleep patterns
What will be an ideal response?
Culture appears to have little impact on the physiological experience of sleep, but it does appear to influence the expression of it in the form of differences in napping patterns and sleeping arrangements.
A recent poll revealed ethnic disparities in people's perceptions of the quality of their sleep, with Asians reporting fewer sleep complaints than other ethnic groups and whites reporting poorer sleep quality than other ethnic groups.
In many "siesta" societies, shops close and activities are curtailed in the afternoon to permit a 1- to 2-hour midday nap. These cultures are found mostly in tropical regions of the world, and the practice is adaptive in that it allows people to avoid working during the hottest part of the day. However, when industrialization comes to a "siesta" culture, a decline in the practice is seen.
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According to the neurocultural theory of emotional expression, facial expressions of emotion are under the dual influence of universal, biologically innate factors and culturally specific, learned display rules
a) True b) False
Oscar, a college student, is checking seven-year-old Meyer to see what cognitive skills he has. He asks him to do some basic conservation tasks. Meyer has correctly responded that there is still the same amount of clay, whether it is in a round ball or rolled out into a hotdog-type shape. When Oscar asks why, Meyer demonstrates how the hotdog-type shaped piece of clay can be rolled back into a
ball. This shows that Meyer has a good grasp of a. assimilation. b. transformational thought. c. equilibrium. d. primary circular reactions.
Dee says to Maggie, "Don't fret about losing that scholarship. If you worry about it, you could make yourself sick." This best illustrates the:
A. mind-body connection B. unconscious motivation C. psychosomatic association D. psychodynamic thought
Tierney just came back from seeing a neurologist. He tells him that the neurologist has scheduled a test in which the activity in Tierney's brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Tierney can't remember the actual name of the test that has been scheduled. It appears that his neurologist is planning:
a. a computerized tomography (CT) scan b. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan c. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording d. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan