When People Go Without Sleep for Several Days in a Row

question 164

Multiple Choice

When people go without sleep for several days in a row, how does their sleepiness change?

• A) They feel sleepier and sleepier as their deprivation continues.
• B) After one or two days they reach a constant level of sleepiness, with no further change noticeable.
• C) For about the first two days they get sleepier, and then they gradually start feeling better.
• D) They feel sleepy at night, then less sleepy in the day, and then sleepier again the next night.

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Definitions:

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