The more junk food you eat, the more weight you gain. This is an example of a(n) ____
a. multiple causation
b. negative correlation
c. experiment
d. positive correlation
e. intervening variable
D
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Greater acculturation appears to be associated
positively with satisfaction with life in the U.S. for Arabs but negatively associated with family satisfaction. Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Prejudice involves
A. prejudgment but not misjudgment. B. misjudgment but not prejudgment. C. both prejudgment and misjudgment. D. neither prejudgment nor misjudgment.
Adrian lives in an area of town in which 90 percent of the students in public schools are black and Hispanic. The main reason for this is __________
a. high birthrates among blacks and Hispanics b. drug use c. because whites have left the city; blacks and Hispanics have moved in d. county-wide busing
Which of these factors is NOT characteristic of a moral panic?
A. concern over a certain behavior or supposed behavior of a group B. hostility to the category of people believed to be engaging in a certain behavior C. disagreement about the level of threat an identified category of people pose D. a volatile quick eruption and equally quick disappearance