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| The fifth stage of sleep, Rapid Eye Movement sleep is where most of your dreaming will take place. |
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| what was one of the hyposthesis of Dement and Klietman study? |
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| there is a signficant association between REM sleep and reporteed dreaming. |
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| what was the sample in this study and what was a weakness of it? |
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| The samples was 9 adults (7 male and 2 female), 5 who were studied intensely. They were all from the USA. However, the sample was drawn just from America, so it was not generalisable. |
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| What two quantitative measures were recorded in this study? |
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| One was the number of dreams recalled after REM and NREM sleep. The seocnd was the accuracy of dream length after 5 or 15 mins of REM sleep. |
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| give one strength and one weakness of quantitative data |
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| Quantitative data allows for identification of patterns of behavior or can be used to calculated averages. Weakness is that quantitative data gives no explanation for why the behavior has occured and it is quite meaningless. |
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| What were the results of Dement and Klietmans' study? |
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| More dreams were recalled from REM sleep than NREM (152:11), more correct presidctions of length of REM than incorrect (92:18 ,strong correlation between REM patterns and dream content. |
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| State a way that this study could be improved and how it could affect results |
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| You could make sure that the sample was beigger and less andocentric/ethnocentric, in order to make it more representive.This would affect the results by allowing more data to be analysed, which would be make the results more generaliseable. |
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