Why is taking a daily baby aspirin recommended for heart health?

What will be an ideal response?


Baby aspirin works as both an anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting agent (it blocks an enzyme that helps platelets aggregate). The downside to the use of daily aspirin is that it can increase the chance of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, so baby aspirin is the minimum effective low risk dose.

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Guiding and teaching a child, which some associate only with punishment, is:

A. modeling B. discipline C. behavior modification D. moralizing

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In a study by Schauble (1990), children played a computer game in which they set up races between different cars

The children's goal was to determine which of five car features (wheels, engine, tailfin, color, and muffler) had a causal relation to speed. Describe a strategy that might be used by a child in the formal operations period to solve this problem. Contrast that strategy with a strategy that might be used by a child in the concrete operations period. What will be an ideal response?

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The only worthwhile research requires a theory to be used to predict an experimental outcome

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

Quasi-experimental designs are often used

A) for research that is poorly conceived. B) in applied field settings where random assignment of participants is not possible. C) in basic animal research when statistical analysis is difficult. D) when a factorial design gets too large.

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