PT142.S4.Q11

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PrepTest 142 - Section 4 - Question 11

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A university professor researching sleep disorders occasionally taught class after spending whole nights working in a laboratory. ███ █████ █████████ █████ ████ ██████ ██████████ ███ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ████ ███ ███ ██████████ ███ ███ ███ ██████████ █████████████ ███ ███████ ███ ███████████ ██████ █████ ███████ █████ ██ █████████ ███ █████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ █████ ████████ ███ ████ █████ █████ ██████ ███████ ██████ ██████████████ ████ ███ ████████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ████████ █████

Summary

A university professor studying sleep disorders sometimes taught after staying up all night in the lab. She found these lectures difficult, feeling tired, humorless, and unable to concentrate or find the right words. After several weeks, she asked her students to guess which lectures followed sleepless nights, but very few could guess correctly.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

The effects of occasional sleep deprivation may feel stronger than how they actually appear in behavior.

Internal feelings of tiredness, humorlessness, and inability to find the right words may not always translate into noticeable performance issues.

In some situations, fatigue may be less noticeable to others than it is to the fatigued person.

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Which one of the following ██████████ ██ ████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██████

The subjective effects ██ ██████████ █████ ███████████ ███ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ █████ █████████

Strongly supported. The professor noticed the subjective effects of her own sleep deprivation- feeling tired, humorless, and unable to concentrate. These were more pronounced than the effects on her outward, observable behavior, which her students did not notice.

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Unsupported. It may be true that the professor’s students did not notice the overall effects of her sleep deprivation, but we do not know that no one can assess those effects as well as the sleep-deprived person can.

Sleep deprivation has ████ ██████ ██ ███████████ ███ ███████████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███ ███████████ ██ ███████

Unsupported. We do not know how the effects of sleep deprivation on the professor’s job performance might compare to the effects of sleep deprivation on the job performance of others. No information is given about the effects of sleep deprivation across different jobs.

Occasional sleep deprivation ██ ███ ██ ████████████ ██ ████████ █████ ████████████

Unsupported. The stimulus does not compare occasional and extended sleep deprivation, so we do not know which one might be more or less debilitating.

University students in █ ███████ ████████ ████ ██ ██ ██████ █████████ ██ █████ █████████

Anti-supported. The students were unable to observe the effects of sleep deprivation on their professor’s lectures, so we can assume that most of them are not astute observers of human behavior in this setting.

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81% of people who answer get this correct

This is a moderately difficult question.

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Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 140

149

75% 159

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