Dr Kushner Is Planning on Conducting a Study Next Semester

question 36

Multiple Choice

Dr. Kushner is planning on conducting a study next semester. He is curious as to whether sleep deprivation is associated with poorer cognitive performance. For example, if you sleep poorly the night before a big exam, will you do worse? Dr. Kushner is especially curious about selective sleep deprivation, where people are kept from entering REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Using an electroencephalograph (EEG) to monitor brain waves, he plans to let participants sleep until they enter REM sleep and then wake them. After the participants are awake for one minute, Dr. Kushner plans to let them return to sleep. As they enter REM sleep again, he will wake them again and follow the same procedure. He plans to do this through the entire eight-hour sleep session. The following morning, participants will be asked to take a sample SAT test.
Dr) Kushner plans to tell his participants that the reason he is waking them up during the night is to recalibrate the EEG machine. This would be an example of which of the following?

• A)Deception through omission
• B)Deception through commission
• C)Deception through permission
• D)Deception through exception

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Definitions:

Memory Span

The amount of information or number of items one can hold in short-term memory at a given time.

Universality Of Conservation

The principle that certain physical properties of objects, such as volume, mass, and number, remain the same despite changes in the forms or appearances of the objects.

Piaget's Procedures

Methodologies developed by Jean Piaget to study cognitive development in children, involving tasks that assess conceptual understanding and logical reasoning.

Systematic Planning

The process of organizing actions or steps in a methodical way to achieve a specific goal or objective.