On an average, REM sleep periods last about _______________

a. 5 minutes
b. 20 minutes
c. 30 minutes
d. 90 minutes


Answer: b

Psychology

You might also like to view...

The research of Anne Becker illustrates how cultural attitudes toward beauty affect eating behaviors (Becker, Burwell, Herzog, Hamburg, & Gilman, 2002). What did Anne Becker find??

a. ?With the introduction of American television, adolescent girls in Fiji reported higher rates of dieting. b. ?Home-schooled American teens with no access to television reported less of a desire to diet than their public school counterparts. c. ?In regions of Africa once plagued by famine, food surplus levels positively correlate with the number of women reporting the need to diet. d. ?Adolescent German girls were three times as likely to go on diets after visiting America while vacationing with their families.

Psychology

Which of the following is particularly useful in research that is the focus of behavioral genetics?

A) Special learning environments B) Stem cells C) Multiple births from independent zygotes D) Identical twins

Psychology

Each week while waiting for his therapy appointment, Justin casually reads through the psychology magazines in the waiting area. If this behavior resulted in latent learning, Justin is likely to

A. have increased his knowledge of psychology. B. have decreased his knowledge of psychology. C. only recall this information in the future if provided reinforcement. D. not recall any information that he read in the magazines.

Psychology

According to the WHO, obesity rates worldwide have ______ since 1980.

a. stayed the same b. doubled c. tripled

Psychology