When discussing maltreatment of children by adults, injury to the body is classified as

A. physical abuse.
B. emotional maltreatment.
C. inappropriate food.
D. neglect.


Answer: A

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a. focus on more than one dimension of a problem at one time. b. mentally reverse simple operations. c. understand that the amount of something remains the same regardless of a change in shape or position. d. take another person's point of view.

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While walking across the quad with your friend Dan, you run into an old girlfriend, Wendy. Only seconds after being introduced to Dan, Wendy says to him, “So, Stan, what's your major?” Noticing that Dan appears agitated about his name being messed up, you explain, “Hey, Dan, information is usually ____ encoded into short-term memory, and this kind of error is common.”?

a. ?visually b. ?semantically c. ?procedurally d. ?acoustically

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You try a new potato chip and it tastes great, so you encourage a friend to try it. He tastes a new chip, then an old-style chip, and finally says that as far as he is concerned, all potato chips taste the same

The behavior of your friend is most similar to what might occur in a study of a. difference thresholds. b. absolute thresholds. c. accommodation. d. response bias.

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A major difficulty with estimating the heritability of sexuality is

(a) the ambiguous results of the experimental investigations on this point (b) the questionable validity of self reports (c) the lack of interest among contemporary social scientists in issues related to sexual orientation (d) none of the above, the heritability of sexuality is perfectly well established at 100%

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