Michele Hypothesizes That an Individual Who Gets Eight Hours of Sleep

question 21

Multiple Choice

Michele hypothesizes that an individual who gets eight hours of sleep, takes a shower, eats a nutritious breakfast, and works under severe time constraints will do worse on a task than an individual who gets eight hours of sleep, takes a shower, eats a nutritious breakfast, but who does not work under the same severe time constraints. Michele's hypothesis violates which criterion for acceptable hypotheses?

• A) correspondence with reality
• B) inclusiveness
• C) coherence and parsimony
• D) falsifiability

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Definitions:

Sadomasochistic Sex

Sexual practices that involve the giving or receiving of pain or humiliation as a means of sexual arousal and pleasure.

Fetishism

A sexual fixation on a nonliving object or a body part not typically associated with sexual arousal.

Masturbating

The act of sexually stimulating oneself, typically to the point of orgasm, as a form of sexual pleasure.

Afferent Fibres

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