Slow-Wave Sleep Seems to Play a Particularly Important Role in the Recuperative

question 35

Multiple Choice

Slow-wave sleep seems to play a particularly important role in the recuperative effects of sleep. The following is major evidence for this conclusion:

• A) People regain only a small portion of their lost sleep following a period of sleep deprivation, but they regain much of their lost stage 4.
• B) Most long sleepers get a higher proportion of stage 3 and 4 sleep than short sleepers.
• C) Volunteers who have reduced the amount that they sleep each night have often accomplished this without substantially reducing the amount of stages 3 and 4 sleep.
• D) all of the above
• E) both A and C

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