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Reading comprehension about the bbc article how often do men really think about sex

Reading comprehension about the bbc article how often do men really think about sex

Question 1 of 8

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General understanding:
The studies show that men think about sex every seven seconds.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 2 of 8

1

General understanding:
The text is about a study trying to find out how many times men think about sex per day.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 8

1

Reading for detail:
The text describes "experience sampling":

Select one of the following:

  • It's a scientific approach where scientists ask people to write down diaries after each day.

  • It's a scientific approach where scientists interview people about their habits.

  • It's a scientific approach where scientists perform brain scans to understand the brain better.

  • It's a scientific approach where scientists ask people to document their brainwork at once.

Explanation

Question 4 of 8

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Reading for details:
The scientist speculated that, due to their outcomes, men recorded more thoughts about sleep, food and sex, because ...

Select one or more of the following:

  • ... men tent to be more receptive for permissive thinking.

  • ... men are commenly more impulsive.

  • ... men seem to recognize simple emotions as thoughts.

  • ... men seem to have better abilities in combinatorial analysis.

Explanation

Question 5 of 8

1

The "white bear problem" shows, that

Select one or more of the following:

  • as soon as you try to forget a thing you will start thinking about it again.

  • it is easy to torture little children.

  • ironic questions in study layouts can't lead to success.

  • you have keep the age and sex of the participants of the study in mind, as their way of thinking differ that much, that the results won't be computable.

Explanation

Question 6 of 8

1

To be "a victim of the experimental design" means,

Select one of the following:

  • the participant will suffer in this experiment.

  • the participant will not react like in real life.

  • the participant is not appropriate for the experiment.

  • the participant won't know the answers to the questions.

  • the participant will have to solve creative tasks.

Explanation

Question 7 of 8

1

At the approach by Wilhelm Hoffman and colleagues the study participants,

Select one or more of the following:

  • needed to have a smartphone.

  • were aked to record their actual thoughts at pre-arranged times every day.

Explanation

Question 8 of 8

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Why is the Hoffman approach assumed to be more accurate than the Fisher study?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Because the participants didn't focus on the study's question.

  • Because the participants had to write down their thoughts.

  • Because the participants didn't know the topic of the study.

Explanation

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