A teacher suspects that her students are unusually quiet during her Monday morning classes because they stay up late on Sunday nights. She believes that if she monitored the times they went to bed,
she would find that the sleepy ones went to bed later than the more alert ones. In scientific terms, her hunch, or suspicion of what she would find if she monitored her students is called a ______.
a. theory
b. hypothesis
c. prognosis
d. postulate
b
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Imagery in the absence of external stimulation is the definition of __________, which are observed in people with schizophrenia
a. thought disorders c. hallucinations b. delusions d. motor tics
The illusion based on the concept that most people live in a world with lots of buildings and corners is the _________
a) moon illusion b) Poggendorf illusion c) Ponzo illusion d) Müller-Lyer illusion
Language is usually a specialized function of the left hemisphere.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The field of ____ gives us information about how the four developmental forces interact with each other.
A. biology B. neuroscience C. anthropology D. sociology