Black African and African American infants may excel in areas of motor development because
a. they are strapped to cradle boards for much of the first year.
b. they are more highly active in utero.
c. their parents encourage experiences that strengthen these skills.
d. of increased myelination of neurons.
c
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Alcohol exerts its major effects on the ______ receptor, a complex that has at least five kinds of receptors.
A. GABAA B. GABAB C. dopamine D. serotonin
Carrie was getting less sleep during midterms, so she began drinking one cup of coffee in the morning to feel more alert. By the end of the semester, Carrie was drinking three cups of coffee each morning to get the same sense of alertness. What has happened to Carrie?
A. Her nervous system has likely compensated to her prior coffee consumption by reducing sensitivity of receptors for caffeine. B. She is experiencing withdrawal when she drinks coffee. C. Coffee is no longer an agonist for her. D. Coffee is no longer an antagonist for her.
______________ refers to the tendency to overestimate dispositional influences (and underestimate situational influences) when explaining another person's behavior
a. Cognitive dissonance b. The fundamental attribution error c. Diffusion of responsibility d. Deindividuation
Dr. Stanhope is trying to determine which type of correlation
is represented on his scatterplot, in which nearly all of his data are clustered along a diagonal line running from higher numbers on the left down to lower numbers on the right. Which type of correlation is represented by this pattern? A) Positive B) Zero C) Negative D) We need more information to draw a conclusion.