How do nightmares differ from sleep terrors?

What will be an ideal response?


Sleep terrors are usually more severe than nightmares. Nightmares tend to occur during REM sleep while sleep terrors occur during deep sleep. Sleep terrors decline with age for a child and are associated with stressful change, such as moving to a new house and divorce.

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The Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) is BEST described as including both

a. positive and negative events. b. large and small events. c. personal and environmental events. d. positive and negative and major and minor events.

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We can say that a t-test is ______ because it failed to provide evidence against the null hypothesis.

What will be an ideal response?

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When Jude is practicing on his own, he can run the 400 meters in 60 seconds. However, when he is running against a competitor he is able to run the 400 meters in just over 56 seconds. The improvement in Jude's performance when he runs against a competitor is consistent with the concept of:

a. social facilitation b. social interference c. normative social influence d. a self-serving bias

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It is best for mother and baby if the newborn was in the womb for at least ______ weeks and weighed more than ______ grams at birth

30; 1200 35; 1000 35; 2500 30; 2500

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