"Mental set" refers to ________
a. the context in which a person takes a drug.
b. the personality traits of the person taking a drug.
c. a person's expectations about a drug's effects.
d. the genetic characteristics of a person taking a drug.
Answer: c. a person's expectations about a drug's effects.
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a. Catherine's premature baby will probably be more responsive to Catherine's behaviors than full-term babies will be to their mothers' behavior. b. Catherine will probably touch, hold, and smile at her newborn baby less often than do mothers of full-term infants. c. Catherine will probably touch, hold, and smile at her newborn baby more often than do mothers of full-term infants. d. the interaction between Catherine and her premature baby will probably be no different from the interaction between full-term babies and their mothers.
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A) Guatamala B) Jamaica C) Puerto Rico D) Cuba
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A) how they ignore children's independent efforts to construct knowledge. B) their inability to explain how heredity and environment jointly produce cognitive change. C) how they underestimate the cognitive competencies of children and adolescents. D) their inability to account for or explain stagewise change.