Hannah Used to Experience Insomnia Once or Twice a Week

question 45

Multiple Choice

Hannah used to experience insomnia once or twice a week. A month ago she starting taking Seconal to help her sleep, but now she finds she cannot get to sleep unless she takes a Seconal tablet. What has happened to Hannah?

• A)She developed a dependency on Seconal.
• B)She habituated to the effects of Seconal.
• C)She developed a drug tolerance for Seconal.
• D)She developed pseudoinsomnia.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated as the sum of all values divided by the total number of values.

Deviation

The amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value such as the mean or expected value.

Normal Curve

A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve representing the distribution of values, scores, or measurements where most occurrences take place near the average.