You are in your first year of teaching fourth grade. There is quite a bit of remodeling going on at your school, which creates a fair amount of noise. You are amazed at how well your students are able to pay attention to what you are saying. You remember your developmental course and recall that children in middle childhood are more capable of focusing their attention because they are able to ____.

In which way are conditioned taste aversions unusual, compared to other learning?

a. Learning occurs more readily for isolated individuals than those in a social group. b. Learned associations are rapidly forgotten in the absence of frequent reminders c. Learning occurs easily even with a long delay between the events to be associated. d. Both infants and older individuals learn better than adolescents and young adults do.

Head Start programs seem to enhance IQ scores of the children involved by exposing them to such materials as

a. letters and words. c. books. b. numbers. d. all of these.

Cerebrospinal fluid is to _________ as blood-brain barrier is to __________

a. meninges; skull b. skull; chemical toxins c. skull; meninges d. chemical toxins; skull e. ventricles; meninges

Alicia is horrified to hear that her date from last night carries the human immunodeficiency virus. While they did not engage in sex, they did share a quick kiss at the end of the evening, hastened by her phone ringing in her apartment

Besides discussing her concerns with her date should they go out again, what precautions should Alicia take? a. She should see her doctor immediately, since kissing can cause the spread of HIV. b. She should see her doctor only if she begins to have symptoms. c. She should try to calm down, since stress helps transmit HIV. d. She should try not to worry, since kissing has not been proven to be a successful way to transmit HIV, and follow-up with her doctor or other health-care provider if she has concerns or questions.