Explain the association between poor health and socioeconomic status (SES).
What will be an ideal response?
- Socioeconomic status (SES) plays a large role in the health of Americans.
- The lower the family income, the more likely the family has a member with a disabling illness.
- This is because low SES workers tend to have riskier jobs and inferior health care, and are likely to live in areas with more environmental pollutants.
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_____ argued that in order to integrate the two very disparate traditions of healing, in-depth comparisons between indigenous healing practices with regard to psychotherapy must first be documented and explained
a) James Kelly b) Eduardo Duran c) James Gone d) LaFromboise
Fatima wants to study how ice cream consumption in a school cafeteria is related to aggressive playground behaviour during recess. She realizes that lack of teacher supervision is a possible third variable that could cause both overconsumption and aggressiveness. She studies only children who have received identical amounts of supervision during the day. What technique is Fatima using to attempt
to control for this third variable? A) matched samples B) matched pairs C) matched supervisors D) double-blind observation
Infants learn from parents that conversing involves taking turns when talking. This exemplifies a(n)
a. environmental/social support for language development. b. phenotypic expression of a canalized genotype. c. lexical contrast constraint. d. expression of grammatical morphemes.
In Freud's personality theory, the ________ are in conflict and the ________ must mediate that conflict
a) ego and superego; id b) id and superego; ego c) id and ego; superego d) id, ego, and superego; conscience