Regarding sleep loss and microsleeps, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. If a task is monotonous, no amount of sleep loss is safe from the occurrence of microsleeps.
b. A hundred thousand automobile crashes every year are caused by sleepiness.
c. Even if your eyes are open, you can fall asleep for a few seconds.
d. Lower animals, such as dogs, cats, and rats do not experience microsleep, only humans do.
D
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a. receive input from only cones, not rods b. are located only in a doughnut-shaped band surrounding the fovea c. respond directly to light, but respond very slowly d. become active only at night or in very dim light
“Vademecum science” is science that ________.
a. has firmly established principles and practices such that they are codified in “cookbooks” or procedural manuals b. relies exclusively on experimental procedures and eschews any theoretical propositions or explanations c. incorporates both qualitative and quantitative methods d. none of the above
Investigations of actual sex differences in behavior have found that
a. differences within each sex are larger than differences between the sexes. b. differences between the sexes are larger than differences within each sex. c. females are more variable in their behavior than males. d. males are more variable in their behavior than females.
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