Explain how advanced age can affect prenatal development. Why is the number of older mother's on the rise?

What will be an ideal response?


More women are waiting to have children in order to establish their careers or for other reasons. Risks for Down syndrome increases with maternal age and some studies show increased prematurity, mortality, and greater difficulty during labor.

Psychology

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What can you conclude about a sample mean falling within the region of rejection?

a. The sample probably represents some population other than the one on which the sampling distribution was based. b. The sample represents the population on which the sampling distribution was based. c. Another sample needs to be collected. d. The sample should have come from the given population.

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Jaclyn has been suffering from hoarding disorder for many years

Her home has become a virtual storage facility for various junk, almost none of which has any value whatsoever. There is a terrible odor in her home and there is almost certainly very dangerous mold growing under her piles of garbage. Her home has become so overrun with "stuff" that there is only one tiny footpath that allows her to get from one room to another. This path, called a "_____," is starting to disappear as she has to step on her own possessions to move around her own home. A) horselane B) pigeontrack C) goatpath D) mousehole

Psychology

LTP may last

A. hours in living animals and indefinitely in a brain slice. B. hours in a brain slice and indefinitely in living animals. C. a few seconds in living animals and several hours in a brain slice. D. a few seconds in a brain slice and several hours in living animals.

Psychology

The purpose of the Binet-Simon approach was to

a. determine which children needed remedial help. b. weed poor students out of the educational system. c. match workers with the appropriate job. d. test Galton's theories of intelligence. e. improve the educational system of France.

Psychology