In a study reported in the text, women were asked to report the major transitions in their lives. Which of the following was the major life transition that the largest proportion of the women identified?
a. the birth of their children
b. when their own mother died
c. when children left home
d. menopause
a
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a. group polarization b. social comparison c. groupthink d. deindividuation
According to the article Yoking Smoking about operant conditioning, shaping is the process used to
(a) fix poor quality research designs (b) teach a rat to make its first bar-press response (c) the way research data are put together for presentation (d) what happens after a rat has received successive rewards in a Skinner box
Across cultures, advances in fine motor development are especially evident in two areas—what are they?
a. throwing and catching b. drawing and writing c. jumping and hopping d. walking backwards and rolling
What is the name of the sheath that encases axons to protect them and increase the speed of communication between neurons?
A. neuronal sheath B. dendritic sheath C. synaptic sheath D. myelin sheath