Early infant blinking are (first few weeks of life):
a. purely reflexive
b. intentional social signals
c. defiant – allows babies to get their way
d. produced when the nervous system is calm
A. Blinking is reflexive and there to regulate their sensory system and protect their eyes from injury.
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a. a personality disorder; has impulse control disorder b. somatoform disorder; does not have a mental disorder c. dissociative disorder; has a personality disorder d. an eating disorder; has a substance-related and addictive disorder
Based on statistics, which 16-year-old female is most likely to die in an incident involving an automobile accident?
a. Jill, who is European American b. Jane, who is African American c. Jessie, who is Hispanic American d. Joan, who is Asian American
Harry Harlow found that the social and cognitive deficits exhibited by monkeys raised in isolation for their first 6 months of life:
A) quickly disappeared when finally introduced to other monkeys. B) remained until the monkeys reproduced and had to care for their own children. C) were evident in monkeys raised with a wire mother surrogate but not in monkeys raised with a soft cloth mother surrogate. D) were severe and long-lasting.
Preschoolers who watch the television show Dora the Explorer have been shown to ____ in kindergarten than children who have not watched the show.
A. be less social B. be more violent C. have larger vocabularies D. have less inner speech