The Grant Study is a 68-year longitudinal study of two socially different groups of people:
237 physically and mentally healthy Harvard college sophomores from the classes of 1939-1944, and a second group of 332 disadvantaged, non-delinquent, inner-city youths who grew up in Boston neighborhoods between 1940 and 1945. Which term below best describes these two groups of individuals?
a) Cliques
b) Cohorts
c) Optimal age groups
d) Connectionist clusters
Answer: b
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b. Because the United States has more babies with low birth weight than most other developed nations. c. Because the United States has the highest rate of pregnant women who abuse alcohol and drugs during their pregnancy. d. Because the United States has the greatest level of toxins in its water and food supplies, thus leading to more prenatal complications.
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a. Children b. Adolescents c. Young adults d. Older adults
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A) obsessive-compulsive disorder; wondering about the external validity of the study B) obsessive-compulsive disorder; skeptical about the internal validity of the experiment C) depression; questioning the statistical significance of the findings D) depression; positing the existence of a third variable
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a. Wellbutrin b. Tegretol c. Clozaril d. all of these e. none of these