After coming to the U.S., Asma learned English quickly and wanted to completely immerse herself in the American culture;
however, her classmates tend to reject her because of her accent and their prejudice toward her country of origin. She feels trapped between her two cultures. Asma's pattern of acculturation would be classified as
a. integration.
b. separation.
c. assimilation.
d. marginalization.
ANSWER: d
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a. inborn factors. c. language acquisition devices. b. reinforcement and imitation. d. overgeneralization.
Forty-year-old Carl is very proud that he has the fastest car on the road and the finest house on the block, but feels lonely and isolated when he goes home to his family. Carl is likely to be in Erikson's _____ stage of development.
A. ego integrity vs. despair B. generativity vs. stagnation C. intimacy vs. isolation D. identity vs. role confusion
When ______ are calculated in real research, researchers can’t know exactly what the population mean is, but they can have confidence that their interval contains the population mean.
a. confidence levels b. confidence intervals c. distribution samples d. distribution intervals
One reason sensory adaptation can be beneficial is that it allows us to:
A) ignore continuous stimuli and shift our focus and attention to other events. B) detect visual stimuli outside of the normal visual spectrum. C) locate the source of sounds in the environment. D) convert physical and chemical stimuli into nerve impulses.