From each of the major viewpoints covered in your textbook, describe the functions that are
served by sleep.
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should address the mysterious nature of sleep and the difficulty researchers
have had in identifying the functions it serves. It should also outline the results of sleep
deprivation studies that have attempted to identify the effects on the brain and body of going
without sleep for long periods.
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Identify one sex difference in movement capacities of the body favoring girls and one favoring boys in middle childhood. Connect this to the role of the environment in supporting movement capacities.
What will be an ideal response?
Thalidomide, a prescription drug prescribed for morning sickness in the 1960s, was associated with
a. reduced birth weight. b. premature births. c. miscarriages. d. gross deformities in baby's limbs.
A modern offshoot of Freudian thinking are the psychosocial stages that cover development from birth to old age and were postulated by
a. Erik Erikson. b. Carl Jung. c. Karen Horney. d. Alfred Adler.
If Factor A in a two-factor repeated measures ANOVA has six levels, how many degrees of freedom are associated with the numerator of the F ratio for the main effect of Factor A?
a. 6 c. 1 b. 5 d. can't say without more information