Early-onset Alzheimer's, occurring before age 65, clearly has a genetic basis as it runs strongly in a family and accounts for ____ cases of this disease
a. a relatively small portion of
b. a moderate portion of
c. a relatively large portion of
d. almost all
Answer: A
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Posner and coworkers (1978) deduced which of the following from their research?
a. The enhancing effect of attention spreads throughout an object. b. Attention is always divided across two or more tasks simultaneously. c. People move their attention from one place to another. d. Attention affects an entire object, even if it is occluded by other objects.
Regarding bilingual education, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. All types of bilingual education tend to be politically unpopular among majority language speakers. b. The two-way bilingual education program involves majority group children and children with limited English skills being taught part of the day in English and part in a second language. c. Studies of bilingual students have found that those who achieve a high level of ability in two languages have better general language skills and problem-solving skills. d. For both minority and majority children, learning a second language produces subtractive bilingualism, that is, the loss of proficiency in one's native language.
People often overestimate the danger of shark attacks because it is fairly easy to think of news stories and reports of shark attacks. This is an example of how the _____ can sometimes lead to poor judgments
a. availability heuristic b. anchoring effect c. functional fixedness effect d. representativeness heuristic
In Sweden, starting at age 7, students learn about ____
a. sex roles, premarital sex, abortion, pornography, HIV/AIDS, and prostitution b. sexual desire, sexual orientation, and sexual dysfunction c. puberty, sexually transmitted infections, homosexuality, and pedophilia d. menstruation, intercourse, masturbation, contraception, pregnancy, and childbirth