Marcus lives with his mom and stepfather. Marcus has been abused by his stepfather since he was 10 years old. Marcus is now entering high school. According to research, what kind of student will Marcus be?

a. Passive
b. An A student
c. Aggressive
d. Stressed


Answer: c

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A. prefer faces of people from their own racial group unless they are frequently exposed to people from other racial groups B. show no preference for looking at faces of people from one racial group over another C. prefer to look at faces of people from a different racial group than their own, due to the novelty value D. become confused when shown faces from different groups and begin crying

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Flashbulb memories are most likely to be associated with

a. misinformation effects. b. recovered memories of early childhood abuse. c. emotionally charged experiences. d. near-death experiences. e. situations that are similar to the situation in which the memory was first encoded.

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Carl Jung used the word association test to infer areas of chronic emotional disturbances, which he called complexes, by observing _______.

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Tayro speaks Spanish and English. His wife, Noriko, speaks Japanese and English. They currently live in an English-speaking country and have a new baby, Kai. They would like him to speak all three languages and have asked for your advice

What would you tell them? a. Because he is learning three different languages at once, Kai will probably be significantly behind his monolingual peers on language milestones. b. They should speak all three languages to him, but he is not able to hear the differences in languages until age 12, so there is no rush. c. As an infant, Kai can distinguish between sounds in all languages until 9 months old. He should be exposed to all three languages during this time. d. The best thing would be to hire a trilingual nanny who speaks English, Spanish, and Japanese because neither of his parents speaks all three languages.

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