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6. Which of these is not always an endogenous pacemaker?
- Hormones
- Suprachiasmatic nuclei
- Pineal gland
7. Jet lag is more severe travelling from West to East.
8. It is easier to adjust your body clock when you:
- Are in phase delay
- Are in phase advance
9. Which if these should you do if you are trying to reduce the negative effects of shift work?
- Pay the workers more.
- Give the workers lots of caffeine
- Increase the amount of time between shift rotation.
- Inject a drug that inhibits melatonin
10. Sleep spindles occur in:
- In stage 1
- Stage 2 and 3
- All stages
- In stage 2
11. Arousal threshold is highest in stage:
12. The core sleep/optional sleep model was proposed by:
- Horne
- Breedlove
- Oswald
- Gardner
13. Benington and Frank showed that:
- People over the age of 90 do not have stage 3 and 4 sleep
- Different animals sleep for different amounts of time
- Animals sleep longer following learning
- The same brain regions are activated during sleep as were activated while doing specific tasks before sleeping
14. Somnambulism is another word for:
- Narcolepsy
- Sleep walking
- Insomnia
- Sleep apnoea
15. In relation to cataplexy, which part of the brain becomes activated when a person collapses?
- Amygdala
- Pineal gland.
- Medulla
- Hypothalamus