What Has NOT Been Identified as a Possible Explanation for Marijuana's

question 4

Multiple Choice

What has NOT been identified as a possible explanation for marijuana's effect on short-term memory?

• A)drug action interferes with the neurochemical processes operative in memory
• B)marijuana use destroys neural connections in the hippocampus
• C)the user is not motivated to attend to or retrieve material
• D)marijuana causes a decreased ability to concentrate

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Definitions:

Type I Errors

Incorrectly disapproving a correct null hypothesis, famously labeled as a "false positive."

Cohen's D

A statistical measure used to assess the effect size or magnitude of the difference between two group means.

Effect

The impact or change that results from some action or intervention, often measured in experiments to understand causality.

Cohen's D

A measure of effect size indicating the difference between two means expressed in standard deviation units.