One Neuropsychological Patient Had Virtually No REM Sleep Following a Brain

question 124

Multiple Choice

One neuropsychological patient had virtually no REM sleep following a brain injury, and he

• A) became neurotic.
• B) developed hypersomnia.
• C) did not seem to be adversely affected.
• D) had disturbing dreams during SWS.
• E) was treated with orexin.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The error of rejecting a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive" error.

Type II Error

Failing to detect an effect or difference that exists because the null hypothesis was incorrectly accepted.

α

Alpha (α) is a threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine the significance level at which the null hypothesis can be rejected.

Effect Size

A numeric evaluation of the size of the effect observed in an experiment.