Based on his functionalist views, William James might be MOST interested to know which information about sleep?
A) the percentage of people who dream
B) the average number of hours per night that people sleep
C) the importance of sleep in forming long-term memories
D) the changes in brain electrical activity that co-occur with sleep stages
C) the importance of sleep in forming long-term memories
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
For a class research project, students conceal themselves in bathroom stalls in order to observe conversational behavior of individuals at sinks in the washroom. They count the number of words spoken by women and men in their respective washrooms. The most important ethical issue in this research is
A. debriefing. B. informed consent. C. privacy. D. deception.
Brain changes that are due to problems in the closure of the neural tube, proper development of the forebrain, and completion of the corpus callosum are referred to as
a. migraine deficiencies. b. migration defects. c. conduction defects. d. induction defects.
In the textbook example, a young man of the Xhosa culture of South Africa, who was said to have "ifufunyane," was later diagnosed with schizophrenia by a psychiatrist. The young man
a. got much better when he took the antipsychotic drugs. b. got much better when he was treated with traditional herbs. c. got much better when he was treated with a combination of antipsychotic drugs and traditional herbs. d. never got better since he was shunned by his family.