Which statement about the judicial system and child maltreatment is true?
A. Fewer cases of child maltreatment currently reach the courts than in decades past.
B. Child maltreatment is a crime that is relatively easy to prove.
C. In the United States, government intervention into family life is viewed as a last resort.
D. In the past several decades, little progress has been made in understanding and preventing child maltreatment.
Answer: C
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a. fear hierarchy conditioning c. backward conditioning b. counterconditioning d. trace conditioning
A weakness of the learning theory of language development is that
a. parents reinforce their children for the grammatical correctness of utterances. b. children imitate the speech of their peers as well as of their parents. c. cooing and crying are inborn. d. two-word utterances develop in an invariant sequence around the world.
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*a. one-way ?2 b. frequency distribution c. parametric d. mean