In the United States the most widely recognized marker for entry into adulthood is
A. holding a permanent, full-time job.
B. getting married.
C. graduation from college.
D. graduation from high school.
Answer: A
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With regard to diversity, the book describes how our country is moving from assimilation to pluralism. Which of the following terms were used to describe this?
a. Melting pot to salad bowl b. Dominant culture to acculturation c. Choice to balance d. Race to ethnicity
Research has shown that _____________________
a. direct stimulation of language development is discouraged in some cultures b. language development is dependent upon the environment rather than genes or biology c. in the United States, language development occurs at the same rate across children from different socioeconomic statuses d. maternal responsiveness to American children's vocalizations had no impact on when children reached language milestones
Despite his amnesia, H.M. demonstrated that he could learn ___
a. a mirror-drawing task b. the Tower of Hanoi problem c. tasks requiring non-declarative memory d. All of the above
In operant conditioning, ________.
A. a neutral stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus that leads to a reflexive response B. babies reduce or eliminate their learned expectations about the likely effects of stimulus events C. infants act, and stimuli that follow their behavior change the probability that the behavior will occur again D. after a baby's nervous system makes the connection between two stimuli, the neutral stimulus produces the behavior