Of all of the different types of preschoolers, which preschooler is two times more likely to die of injuries?
a) an Asian American boy
b) an inner-city boy
c) a Caucasian American girl
d) a Caucasian American farm boy
b
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Andy is small for his age and is usually picked last when his classmates choose teams for sports. As a result, Andy is very shy and has had a hard time developing good social skills. This example illustrates that
a. various domains of development interact with one another. b. school children are unsympathetic toward their shy classmates. c. school children are unsympathetic toward their small classmates. d. social development does not interact with physical development.
What is the primary difficulty with applying the criterion of "social nonconformity" to define abnormal behavior?
a) Norms are entirely subjective from person to person. b) Societies generally accept and view all behaviors as normal. c) The acceptability of a behavior might be different from one setting to another. d) Norms do not guide behavior except in rare instances.
Categories higher in a conceptual hierarchy are ______ to lower levels, while categories lower are ______ to higher levels.
A. auxiliary; peripheral B. subordinate; superordinate C. superordinate; subordinate D. peripheral; auxiliary
Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis helps explain why:
A. The Dani tribe has two names for colors B. Children have an innate ability to learn grammatical rules C. bilingual people think differently in each language D. athletes are better able to think in images