Your Roommate Sleeps Quite a Bit During the Late Afternoon

question 282

Multiple Choice

Your roommate sleeps quite a bit during the late afternoon. According to research (Brown et al., 2002) , university students are more than twice as likely as other adults to report ____.

• A) taking naps
• B) delayed sleep phase syndrome
• C) insomnia
• D) serious night terrors

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Definitions:

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, from about 7 to 11 years of age, where children can use logic to solve problems but still struggle with abstract and hypothetical concepts.

Piaget's Stages

the theory proposed by Jean Piaget that outlines the four stages of cognitive development in children: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Conservation

A cognitive ability, identified by Piaget, that enables a child to understand that substances remain the same in quantity even when their shapes change.