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Ch. 12 The Central Nervous System

Chapter 12, Problem 12.21a

Match the term on the left with its correct description from the column on the right.     


____REM sleep     

____Stage I sleep     

____Delta waves     

____Beta waves     

____Theta waves     

____Stage IV sleep


a. The EEG pattern seen in the deepest stage of sleep

b. The deepest stage of sleep

c. The EEG pattern seen in an alert, awake adult

d. Drowsiness or the lightest stage of sleep

e. The EEG pattern seen in lighter stages of sleep

f. The stage of sleep during which most dreaming takes place

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Everyone. Let's take a look at this question together. Which of the following does not describe stage N three sleep. Is it answer choice. A eye movement becomes rapid answer. Choice B arousal from sleep can be difficult answer. Choice. C breathing is at its lowest rate or answer choice. D all of the above. Let's work this problem out together to try to figure out which of the following answer, choices is not involved in stage and three sleep. So in order to solve this question, we have to recall what we have learned about stage N three sleep to determine which of the following answer choices is not something that is found within stage N three sleep. And we can recall that N three sleep is deep or slow wave sleep also abbreviated as SWS and N three sleep is characterized by slow and synchronized brain waves with a high amplitude as well as it is characterized by having low levels of arousal and slow or infrequent eye movement. And lastly, N three sleep involves having a slow breathing rate. So looking at our answer choices, we can identify that answer choice B is incorrect. Since answer choice B says arousal from sleep can be difficult, which does describe stage N three sleep as well as answer choice C since breathing is at its lowest rate during N three sleep. However, looking at answer choice, A, it says eye movement becomes rapid and we know that N three sleep is characterized by slow or infrequent eye movement. So answer choice A does not describe stage N three sleep making answer choice. A, the correct answer as answer choices B and C are described in stage N three sleep and answer choice A which says that eye movement becomes rapid is not true since stage and three sleep involves that slow or infrequent eye movement. So answer choice A is the correct answer. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.