Professor Parsnip Wants to Know More About the Mental Process

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Essay

Professor Parsnip wants to know more about the mental process students go through as they learn about research methods.She also wants to know which instructional methods are most effective for teaching research methods to her students.Assume that Professor Parsnip decides to take a quantitative approach to studying these questions.State a specific research question related to her general research problem that lends itself well to a quantitative research approach.Then explain why your question is better addressed using a quantitative,rather than a qualitative,methodology.

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Definitions:

Hallucinations

False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.

Night Terrors

A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during N3 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.

Sleep Spindles

Bursts of brain activity visible on an EEG that occur during stage 2 of sleep, thought to be related to learning and memory.

Circadian Rhythms

Natural, internal processes that regulate the sleep-wake cycle and repeat roughly every 24 hours.