Which of the following is true of the impact of poverty on childhood development?
a. Children living in poverty are at higher risk for physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral problems.
b. Poverty influences the environments children learn in, and can be associated with more accidents and injuries.
c. Poverty is associated with high levels of personal stress and puts children at risk for mental health problems.
d. All of these are true.
d
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Which developmental perspective assigns a central role to brain functioning in understanding and explaining behavior?
A. humanistic B. cognitive neuroscience C. neo-Piaget D. information processing
Research on the effects of movie watching on teens' smoking behavior (i.e., watching popular movies containing instances of smoking) found that ____
a. there were only very weak effects b. there were moderately strong effects—but these effects disappeared when one accounted for individual differences on personality variables c. there were moderately strong effects—but these effects disappeared when one accounted for parental smoking and peer group smoking d. there were progressively stronger effects as the exposure to instances of smoking in movies increased
The research methods of psychology have been largely borrowed from:
a. philosophy. b. Asian philosophy. c. economics. d. physical sciences.
A positive reinforcer is a stimulus that is __________ and thus __________ the probability of a response.
A. removed; decreases B. presented; increases C. presented; decreases D. removed; increases