Which woman is most likely to breast-feed her child?
a) Greta, a 40-year-old German woman with a PhD in child development
b) LaTonya, a 17-year-old Latina high-school dropout
c) Serena, a 21-year-old African American woman in the United States
d) Camilla, a 30-year-old Caucasian woman living on welfare
Answer: a
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acceptable outlet for his desire to run around wearing silly outfits. a. ?id; pleasure b. ?ego; reality c. ?superego; morality d. ?defense mechanism; denial
A psychologist who studies memory processes by investigating the remarkable ability of Akira Haraguchi to accurately recite pi to 100,000 digits is using:
A) experimentation. B) the case method. C) self-selection. D) the double-blind technique.
In the first phase of an experiment, food is given to a dog and it salivates. In the second phase, a light is turned on, the food is given, and the dog salivates. After several pairings, every time the light is turned on, the dog salivates. After continual pairings with the light, the salivation begins to decrease and ultimately goes to zero. The dog is then taken out of the experimental chamber and placed in its home pen. The following day it is placed back in the experimental chamber and the conditioned stimulus is presented again. How much salvation will occur?
A. No salvation will occur. B. The salvation will remain the same as it originally was. C. The salivation will occur but not at the rate it originally was. D. There will be more salvation than there originally was.
According to Cowan, the capacity of short-term memory has been ____ because researchers have not controlled for ____ by participants
a. overestimated; covert chunking b. underestimated; covert chunking c. overestimated; serial positioning d. underestimated; serial positioning