Helmholtz's Attempt to Measure the Speed of the Nervous Impulse

question 39

Multiple Choice

Helmholtz's attempt to measure the speed of the nervous impulse in human subjects

• A) gave consistent results almost identical with those for the frog's nerve.
• B) helped introduce the "reaction time" method into psychology.
• C) indicated that the speed was too fast to be measurable in humans.
• D) demonstrated the existence of a nonphysical "life force."

Grasp the factors affecting the width of a confidence interval and strategies to alter it.

Identify the conditions under which the standard normal distribution can be used for constructing confidence interval estimates for population proportions.

Understand the distinction between unbiased and biased estimators.

Understand and identify the margin of error in estimation context.

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