Humans are innately prepared to learn a language, but not for learning a specific language. The language that is learned depends on ______
chromosomal and anatomical differences
genetic programming
biological preparedness
the social and cultural environment
the social and cultural environment
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following statements best encapsulates the relationship between stress and physical illness according to psycho-neuroimmunologists?
a. Stress compromises the body's immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to illness. b. Stress increases the production of natural killer cells, which causes cell death and leads to illness. c. Stress causes high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer. d. Stress has no direct relationship to physical illness, though physicians tell us that these things are related so that we will be more willing to take unnecessary medications. e. Stress is the single biggest cause of cancer, and research has repeatedly confirmed this.
Early psychological research concluded that early childhood experiences – including childhood sexual abuse or unresolved pre-Oedipal conflicts – were the reason why some individuals are homosexual. What has recent research found?
a. Recent research has completely dispelled the fact that sexual orientation has anything at all to do with environmental influence. b. Recent and more reliable research has failed to find any aspects of parenting or environment that predicts homosexual orientation later in life. c. Recent research, particularly that discovered by the Human Genome Project, has identified "sexual orientation" genes, so that it is possible to accurately predict who will be homosexual in adulthood. d. Recent research has identified that sexual orientation is completely mediated by the frontal lobes of the cerebrum, which is why we don't often become aware of our sexuality until well after puberty begins.
Most cases of school refusal appear around age __________
A) 5 to 7 B) 8 to 10 C) 11 to 13 D) 14 to 16