A middle-aged man tells his physician that he has always slept nine to ten hours a night even when he was a young man, and he wonders if something is wrong with him. He should be
a. urged to reduce his sleep time to six hours, which is normal for adults.
b. urged to reduce his sleep time to eight hours, which is normal for adults.
c. assured that this sleep pattern is within acceptable, normal limits.
d. given medication to improve the quality of his sleep and thus reduce the amount of time he spends in sleep.
C
You might also like to view...
DARE, the often-used drug prevention program is ______ successful.
A. not at all B. somewhat C. quite D. very
In a modification of the ______ effect, an individual takes longer to name the color of an anxiety-related word than the color of a neutral word.
a. Graham-Bell b. James-Lange c. Stroop d. mere exposure
Which of the following statements is consistent with Gazzaniga's beliefs about consciousness?
A. The left side of the brain has only primitive consciousness. B. Both sides of the brain contribute equally to conscious experience. C. The right side of the brain contains the brain interpreter. D. The right hemisphere has only primitive consciousness.
The current view of why classical conditioning works the way it does, advanced by Rescorla and others, adds the concept of __________ to conditioning theory.
A. generalization B. habituation C. memory loss D. expectancy