Nguyen is returning to New York from a long trip to Southeast Asia. When he arrives, he feels like he could sleep for a week, has trouble remembering where he parked his car, then drops his keys when he finally finds it
Nguyen is suffering from "jet lag," a type of _________ that occurs when people travel quickly across several time zones.
a. suprachiasmatic sleep pattern
b. circadian rhythm.
c. individual chronotype
d. internal desynchronization
Answer: d
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A. reliability B. validity C. norms D. equality
Suppose you are sitting in an art class, and you have been instructed to draw from memory the scene you see from a window in your own bedroom
Although you cannot actually see the top of a tree through the bedroom window, you still draw the complete tree. The error you have committed is called a. episodic memory. b. boundary extension. c. change blindness. d. a script error.
Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The average (mean) number of seizures for the 20 subjects is called _________
a. the dependent variable c. a statistic b. data d. a parameter
If you are unable to remember the name of your second grade teacher because you haven't thought of her in awhile, you are demonstrating
a. the serial position effect. b. transience. c. misattribution. d. absent-mindedness. e. encoding specificity.