Transcript text: How Would You Know If Sleep Deprivation Affects Academic Performance?
1. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
- Your study showed a cause-effect relationship between sleep deprivation and lower learning and remembering.
- Your study showed that sleep deprivation relates to lower learning and remembering, but it did not establish a cause-effect relationship.
- Using random assignment, you instructed some participants to sleep eight hours and others to sleep one hour.
- You identified and controlled for confounding variables that might reduce confidence in your study results.
2. In your study, whether participants had damage to memory centers in the brain was a confounding variable because: