On a recent trip to Mexico, Lorenzo learns of a holiday to honor the dead. As part of the holiday Mexicans visit cemeteries in an attempt to communicate with the souls of the dead, offering food, drink and photographs to encourage the souls to visit. What is the holiday called?
A. All Saints Day
B. Day of the Dead
C. All Hallows' Eve
D. The Dearly Departed
Answer: B
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a. tamoxifen b. pamelor c. parnate d. cyclobenzeprine
Drinking by older women taking drugs for medical purposes (Epstein et al., 2007) may:
a. benefit from its buffering effect on hormonal declines b. protect against coronary heart disease and osteoporosis c. increase risk for breast cancer with heavier drinking d. all of the above
Proactive interference refers to situations in which
a. early childhood memories are extremely difficult to remember. b. the retrieval cues that exist facilitate memory. c. previously acquired information makes it more difficult to acquire new information. d. newly acquired information makes it more difficult to remember older information.
A child has two favorite glasses: a tall, skinny one with a picture of a giraffe on it and a short, fat one with a picture of a hippopotamus on it. When her mother pours her some milk using the "hippo" glass,
the girls asks that the milk be moved into the "giraffe" glass because she is really thirsty. If the girl believes that simply transferring the milk into the taller glass increases the amount, she probably a. is in the stage of formal operations. b. has not yet reached the concrete operational stage. c. is incapable of accommodation. d. is capable of mental operations.