The rituals of the Muscogee Creek tribe include digging graves by hand and throwing a handful of dirt onto the grave before covering it. What do tribe members call the act of throwing a handful of dirt onto the grave?
A. "Ritual burying"
B. The "final meal"
C. The "magic touch"
D. A "farewell handshake"
Answer: D
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a. hippocampus b. hypothalamus c. basal ganglia d. amygdala
According to the discussion of the narrative technique,
a. this technique is effective if you need to learn a single list of items; its effectiveness is reduced when learning multiple lists. b. the research suggests that this technique works well, as long as you can create the story easily and also recall it easily. c. this technique is effective with college students, but not for people with memory impairments. d. this method is so effective that it works even if you use a weak story to link together the items.
A young child tells his mother that "when the dog growl at me, I runned home so fast, I hurt my foots.". The child's application of the normal past tense and plurals to irregular verbs and nouns illustrates the child's attempt to use
a. transformation rules. b. the semantic differential. c. disjunctive concepts. d. a morpheme shift.
One important function of the sympathetic nervous system is to
a. constrict the pupils. b. secrete thin saliva. c. increase the flow of blood to the digestive system at appropriate times. d. increase the flow of blood to the muscles at important times. e. activate functioning of the kidneys and bowels.