Why do we sleep? In your answer, make sure you describe the repair theory and adaptive theory
What will be an ideal response?
The repair theory suggests that activities during the day deplete key factors in our brain or body that are replenished or repaired by sleep. The repair theory says that sleep is primarily a
restorative process.
The adaptive theory suggests that sleep evolved because it prevented early humans and animals from wasting energy and exposing themselves to the dangers
of nocturnal predators.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to the text, about what percent of young children have at least one imaginary companion?
a. about 10% b. about one-fourth c. about half d. about two-thirds
A possible threat to validity in which a participant does not show up for a study at a scheduled time or fails to complete the study is called ______.
A. history effect B. attrition C. instrumentation D. regression toward the mean
Sammy was deprived of his mother and father's love as a child. Operant conditioning theorists would
believe his childhood would result in ________; cognitive theorists would emphasize the deprivation's effect on ________. A) a lack of social skills; dysfunctional self-schemas B) a lack of social skills; brain damage C) conditioned avoidance responses; conditioned stimuli D) fixation at the oral stage; a lack of attachment