ent studies on the effect of maternal stress on children found that the children of mothers who had experienced abuse during pregnancy showed DNA methylation of the genes associated with the hormone ______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: cortisol
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a. power c. alpha b. 1 - power d. beta
If you were a disengaged parent, how would you handle a child who only wanted to eat a banana split for dinner?
a. "It would be much better to eat a healthy dinner first and have a banana split for dessert if you are not full." b. "Great, let's go for it!" c. "Absolutely not, under no circumstance will I allow that!" d. "Whatever, I don't care."
Two psychology students are in a heated discussion about the nature of prejudice. Mavis insists that that when people get their identity from membership in a political action group, they will generally express ethnocentrism. Martin argues that with or without ethnocentrism, social identity based in group membership is inevitably associated with the demonization of minority groups. Who is correct?
A. Martin is correct. B. Neither Mavis nor Martin is correct. C. Mavis is correct. D. Both Mavis and Martin are correct.
If a psychologist wanted to study public behaviors in a group without intervening in the group or even letting others know that they were being observed, the most likely approach would be
a. observational research. b. correlational research. c. experimental research d. longitudinal research.