Kit Mathers is a professional rodeo cowboy who rides bulls f…
Kit Mathers is a professional rodeo cowboy who rides bulls for a living. On his last go round he rode a mean little bull called Whirlwind who quickly unseated him and, while Kit was looking for the ground, managed to pop him in the side of the head with a horn. The blow permanently damaged Kit’s right temporal lobe. This type of injury will likely affect Kit by:
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To study the effects of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep on memory, researchers have participants try to memorize some material before going to bed in a sleep laboratory. Half of the participants are awakened repeatedly throughout the night whenever they enter REM sleep (depriving them of REM sleep), while the other half are allowed to go through REM sleep but are awakened an equal number of times in different sleep stages. In the morning, all participants memories are tested for the material they learned before bed. In this experiment, the independent variable is ________.
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