Leta Hollingworth Designed Two Studies to Assess the Widely Held

question 71

Multiple Choice

Leta Hollingworth designed two studies to assess the widely held belief that women became physically and mentally impaired during their menstrual periods,a belief known as __________.From these studies,she concluded __________.

• A) functional periodicity; women do not experience periodic mental or motor impairment
• B) variation hypothesis; women experience periodic mental, but not motor, impairment
• C) cyclical theory; both men and women experience periodic mental and motor impairment
• D) menstrual decrease; women experience periodic motor, but not mental, impairment

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