A hypnic jerk is likely to occur during

Last night, Kayla thought she was awakened by a noise she heard outside of her bedroom door. When she tried to get up to see what was going on, she found she could not move. She tried to scream but could not make a sound. After several minutes, she was finally able to sit up and wondered what had just happened. The best explanation for Kayla's experience, according to sleep researchers, is that she experienced

Delta waves are predominant in which stage of sleep?

Which of the statements about night terrors is correct?

A person has entered N3 sleep when delta waves account for _____ percent or more of brain wave activity.

The heart rate slows, breathing becomes more shallow and irregular, and an EEG would show the first signs of sleep spindles in _____ sleep.

Pieter was lying on the couch and had fallen asleep when all of a sudden his body jerked, and he woke up because he felt like he was falling. Pieter was most likely in which stage of sleep?

Nightmares are more common in children than in adults because

Insomnia can be helped by