The purpose of isolating a person in a cave for many months without clocks, television, or radio was to determine:

A. if people can live without such modern devices
B. how much the person sleeps with no time cues
C. how the devices' electromagnetic waves affect memory
D. how many books the person could read


Answer: B

Psychology

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By changing the number of items in Piaget's conservation test, subsequent researchers found that __________.

A. young children make even more preoperational errors than Piaget thought B. older children were worse than younger children when it comes to preoperational errors C. young children make fewer preoperational errors than Piaget thought D. young children made no preoperational errors

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Which type of dissociative amnesia disorder is correctly paired with its chief characteristic?

a. generalized amnesia—partial loss of memory for a short period of time b. localized amnesia—loss of all memory for a short period of time c. systematized amnesia—inability to recall events between a specific time in the past and the present d. selective amnesia—memory loss associated with fleeing a stressful event and developing a new identity

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A study is done examining whether rewarding children for good behavior increases the amount of time students spend studying. In this study, the amount of time spent studying would be the _____ variable

a. control b. dependent c. confounding d. independent

Psychology

What role, if any, do cognitive disturbances play in anxiety disorders?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology