A study appears to find evidence of "sleep learning"—the ability to perceive and retain material played on an audio recording while a person sleeps, unaware of the recording
What would you want to know about this research before deciding to record this chapter and play it by your bedside all night instead of studying it in the usual way?
What will be an ideal response?
Was there a control group that listened to, say, a musical selection or white noise? How complicated was the material that was allegedly learned: a few key words, whole sentences, and a whole lecture by Professor Arbuckle? Were the results large enough to have any practical applications? How did the researchers determine that the participants really were asleep? (When brain-wave measures are used to verify that volunteers are actually sleeping, no "sleep learning" takes place.)
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The disorder called congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
a. masculinizes girls but leaves boys unaffected. b. feminizes boys but leaves girls unaffected. c. causes cognitive changes in either gender. d. causes biological changes in either gender.
Although Ivan Pavlov is usually credited with its discovery, professor Edwin Twitmyer was one of the first people to study ___________________
FIll in the blank with correct word.
Chronic alcohol abuse is connected with which of the following?
a. cancer c. anemia b. increased aerobic capacity d. arthritis
In their "lost in a shopping mall" study, Loftus and Pickrell (1995):
a) found that 75% of participants falsely remembered being lost in a mall. b) found that when false memories were created, they were quite vague, and not very long lasting. c) found that participants were just as confident about their false memories as they were about real ones. d) enlisted family members of the participants as confederates.