Which statement best reflects current research on interventions designed to help poverty-stricken children?
A. Difficulties are best addressed one at a time, with those related to parenting addressed first.
B. Difficulties are best addressed one at a time, with those related to behavior problems addressed first.
C. Poverty-stricken children benefit most from multifaceted efforts that focus on many needs at once.
D. Interventions designed to help children and youths surmount the risks of poverty inevitably do more harm than good.
Answer: C
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a. oxygen, food, and water b. love, esteem and finances c. waste elimination and proper temperature d. both a and c
"Material learned under a particular physiological state is recalled best under the same physiological state" is a definition of the principle called
a) memory transfer. b) state-dependent learning. c) focal memory consistency. d) physiologically-based learning.
Which of the following is true with regard to using animals as research subjects?
a. Many of the basic biological mechanisms underlying animal behaviors are significantly different than those underlying human behaviors. b. Animal protection organizations have suggested that the only way to ethically study animals is to observer them in their natural environments rather than in laboratory settings. c. It is possible to obtain informed consent when using animal subjects. d. Animal suffering is a variable that does not need to be considered when designing an experiment because animals' brains are not capable of registering pain or discomfort in a way that interferes with legitimate research questions.
In the article on object permanence, Now You See It, Now You Don't, the participants in Piaget's own
studies were (a) children in the kindergarten class he taught (b) neighborhood children whose parents signed permission forms (c) his own children (d) children who were randomly selected from the phone book