In a research study presented in your text, participants who learned a word list in the evening before going to sleep and were tested in the morning had better recall of the word list than those who learned the material in the morning and tested in the evening. This research supports the idea that with respect to memory, sleep can be described as serving a(n) function
a. consolidation b. protective
c. encoding
d. restorative
e. conservation
a
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A source of error that is of particular concern for researchers studying genetically linked disorders is ____
a. the difficulty involved in finding probands b. the difficulty of getting family members of probands to participate in the research c. accurate reporting of whether people related to the probands are sick or well d. getting funding to carry out the research
Comprehension is easiest when information in the story is
a. directly related to previous information stored in STM. b. directly related to previous information stored in LTM. c. indirectly related (requiring an inference) to information in STM. d. indirectly related to information in LTM.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Contemporary research on animal emotion and sensation would likely support the claim that animals experience deep moral conflicts.
Julia is a perimenopausal woman who suffers from night sweats and hot flashes. She also suffers from severe joint pain and heart palpitations. Julia's gynecologist has suggested hormone replacement therapy as a cure. In this scenario, Julia has _____
A) spatial disorientation B) diabetic retinopathy C) autoimmune thyroiditis D) estrogen deficiency