According to the Text,which Theory of Sleep Does the Best

question 161

Multiple Choice

According to the text,which theory of sleep does the best job of explaining why there are such large differences in the amount of time that the members of various mammalian species spend sleeping?

• A) recuperative theory
• B) Freudian theory
• C) adaptation theory
• D) activation-synthesis theory
• E) sandman theory

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Definitions:

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