Luke Needs About 7 Hours of Sleep a Night

question 128

Multiple Choice

Luke needs about 7 hours of sleep a night.During his spring break, however, he sleeps 10 hours just because he enjoys it so much.This finding is inconsistent with which psychological concept?

• A)Maslow's need hierarchy
• B)the Yerkes-Dodson law
• C)Hull's drive theory
• D)the two-factor theory of emotion

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Standard Deviation

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