AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What type of variable is the use of artificial light in Siffre’s cave study?
A
Independent Variable
B
Co Variable
C
Confounding Variable
D
Extraneous variable
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Siffre (1975) found that the absence of external cues significantly altered his circadian rhythm: When he returned from an underground stay with no clocks or light, he believed the date to be a month earlier than it was.

Detailed explanation-2: -Siffre was the first to show that our body might have its own clock. Since then, chronobiology has become a hugely important field of research.

Detailed explanation-3: -a net average of all the neurons’ potentials. What do the EEG waves look like when brain activity is “desynchronized"? With each succeeding stage of sleep (from 1 to 4): slow, large-amplitude waves increase in number.

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