Worrying About Insomnia May Actually Make the Brain More Sensitive

question 25

Multiple Choice

Worrying about insomnia may actually make the brain more sensitive to signs of sleeplessness,further exacerbating the problem and illustrating _____.Thus,when persons cannot sleep,they should get out of bed and go do something else.Further,the bed should be reserved only for sleeping,and not for reading books,doing homework,eating,or watching television.If persons do these things and only lie down in bed when they are sleepy,behaviourists would state that,over time,the bed will become a(n) _____ for sleep.

• A)homeostasis;unconditioned stimulus
• B)ironic processes of mental control;discriminative stimulus
• C)a conditioned compensatory response;conditioned stimulus
• D)the diathesis-stress model;reinforcer

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