Recent Research on Déjà Vu Experiences by Cleary and Her

question 52

Multiple Choice

Recent research on déjà vu experiences by Cleary and her colleagues has found that déjà vu arises when

• A) individuals are reliving an exact event they have experienced in a past life.
• B) the arrangement of elements within a scene is similar to one previously seen, but not remembered.
• C) acetylcholine floods the hippocampus and activates multiple experiences in memory at once, causing a sense of familiarity.
• D) people are confronted with situations that trigger repressed memories but are unable to recall the previous experiences.

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Definitions:

Pooled Variance

An estimate of the common variance of two or more groups that is weighted by the degrees of freedom of each group.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to quantify the accuracy of a sample mean.

Independent Samples

Samples from different populations in which the selection of one sample does not influence or affect the selection of the other sample.

Point Estimate

A single value given as an estimate of a population parameter, often derived from sample data.