Increase in brain weight during the preschool years is due to the:
A) increase in thickness of the skull.
B) continuing myelination of nerve fibers.
C) increase in size of the spinal cord.
D) continuing of growth of the medulla.
B
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A) Adaptive thermogenesis B) Adaptive mutagenesis C) Homeostasis D) Apostasis E) Select
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A. Denial B. Projection C. Rationalization D. Reaction formation
Which of the following describes an inter-sexual individual?
A) Their gonads match their chromosomal sex. B) They possess both testes and ovaries. C) They have gonads with testicular and ovarian tissue. D) Their external genitalia match their chromosomal sex.
Bothwell et al. (2006) conducted research examining racial bias in jury decision making. The results show that
A) racial biases existed for private judgments but not after deliberation. B) racial biases existed only after the jury deliberated. C) there is no racial bias involved in judgments of sexual harassment. D) there was bias such that privately and after deliberation white victims received more compensation. E) there was bias such that both privately and after deliberation black defendants received harsher sentences.