What are the benefits of the practice of meditation?
What will be an ideal response?
Similar to deep relaxation, the practice of meditation can reduce stress and anxiety symptoms. It may also reduce chronic pain, improve immune responses, increase the volume of cerebral gray matter, and slow declines in age-related cognitive function.
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What do we mean by an unbiased statistic?
a. a statistic that equals the sample mean b. a statistic whose average is very stable from sample to sample c. a statistic used to measure racial diversity d. a statistic whose long range average is equal to the parameter it estimates
Your textbook discussed the research on test anxiety, study skills, and reading-comprehension scores in undergraduates. According to this research,
a. students who have high test anxiety tend to report having good study skills, but they still tend to perform poorly on reading-comprehension tests. b. students who have high test anxiety report having poor study skills. c. students who have high test anxiety do not differ from less anxious students on reading-comprehension tests. d. students who have high test anxiety do not differ from low-anxiety students when making inferences from textbook material.
The bacterium Helicobacter pylori is now known to be the cause of ____________
FIll in the blank with correct word.
Acts of reciprocal altruism are most likely to occur if
a. witnesses are present. b. the anonymity of the altruist is assured. c. the risk to the altruist is low. d. the altruist ignores the likelihood of success. e. the benefit to the recipient is low.