Which statement best describes infants' visual acuity?
a. Acuity is innate, and the neonate's vision is as sharp and clear as adults'.
b. Acuity is blurry at birth, gradually improving to adult levels by age 12.
c. Acuity is blurry at birth, improving to adult levels around six months.
d. It is presently impossible to assess acuity in infants.
C
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The paintings of your favorite artist depict his subjective impressions rather than the exact external objects. This may be due to this artist's brain allowing him to experience sounds as colors and shapes so that he literally paints what he "sees," which illustrates the rare form of imagery known as
a. lateral perspective. b. sane hallucinations. c. synaesthesia. d. eidetic imagery.
Which of the following statements regarding the middle generation as the sandwich generation is true?
Providing assistance to older and younger generations may be more a function of personality than of necessity. Most middle-aged adults feel tremendous pressure because of their role as kinkeeper. In the United States, middle-aged couples tend to have more contact with the husband's parents than with the wife's parents. All of the answers are true statements.
In the late 1800s, the emphasis on a biological cause of mental disorder ironically resulted in reduced interest in treatments for mental patients because it was thought that
A. physicians should devote more time to the physically ill. B. patients would improve more rapidly if they were not hospitalized. C. the hospital staff was not adequately trained to administer new treatments. D. mental illness due to brain pathology was incurable.
Younger preschoolers:
a. are less likely to engage in any form of play than older preschoolers. b. are more likely to engage in cooperative play than older preschoolers. c. are more likely to engage in physical play than older preschoolers. d. are more sociable than older preschoolers.