Which statement is true about infectious disease?
A. Infectious disease has been wiped out worldwide.
B. Very few children die of infectious disease in the United States.
C. Thanks to the cooperation of the pharmaceutical industry, life-saving oral rehydration, vaccines, and antibiotics are freely available to children around the globe.
D. In the United States, the main cause of death of young children is diarrhea.
Answer: B
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Regarding the major contemporary perspectives in psychology, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The behavioral perspective focuses on observable actions and the influences of learning processes in behavior. b. The humanistic perspective emphasizes the importance of subjective conscious experience and personal responsibility and freedom. c. The physiological perspective examines how behavior and mental experience is shaped by biological processes and the workings of the brain and nervous system. d. The sociocultural perspective focuses on mental processes that allow us to gain knowledge about ourselves and the world. e. The psychodynamic perspective suggests that our psychology is shaped by unconscious motives and conflicts outside the range of ordinary awareness.
Meeting new people and making friends on the job are examples of
a. social rewards. b. intrinsic rewards. c. altruistic rewards. d. extrinsic rewards.
According to Main and Hesse (1998), why do parents that are classified as
Unresolved/Disorganized on the Adult Attachment Interview have infants that are rated as disorganized in the Strange Situation? A) The parents often engage in bizarre, frightening/frightened behavior, which creates a state of alarm in their infants. B) The fact that the parents often score low on parent sensitivity assessments. C) Because they are less intelligent than secure people. D) Because they often ignore their infants and do not take care of them.
Psychopaths show an excessively strong change in the electrical conductance of the skin when they anticipate punishment or danger
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.