In the last 50 years, human life expectancy has approximately doubled, but in the next 50 years ___ resulting from obesity may stop or even reverse this increase
a. diabetes
b. high blood pressure
c. heart disease from obesity
d. all of the above
D
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Summarize the biological, psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive approaches to understanding gender development. Apply each perspective to an example of a young girl, Stephanie, who is coming to understand her gender.
What will be an ideal response?
Proactive inference occurs when
a. older memories interfere with newer memories. b. newer memories interfere with older memories. c. more frequently experienced events interfere with less frequently experienced events. d. less frequently experienced events interfere with more frequently experienced events. e. items in the middle of a list interfere with memorizing the first and last items.
A physician prescribes perphenazine to a person with schizophrenia. If the person's symptoms are not reduced, ____
a. another drug such as amphetamine might be use b. another drug such as L-dopa might be used c. there should be no surprise because perphenazine increases dopamine activity d. there should be no surprise because many schizophrenic patients are not helped by antipsychotic medications
A child watches other children wince with pain as they receive hypodermic injections. Although the child has never received an injection, he responds emotionally when a needle is brought near him. His reaction is an example of
a. operant conditioning. b. spontaneous recovery of fear. c. instrumental conditioning. d. vicarious classical conditioning.