What is the significance of the Tuskegee study?
What will be an ideal response?
For 40 years, a large group of African American men were allowed to go untreated for syphilis for the sake of a racist experiment. The men were never informed of their condition, nor of their contagiousness and of the danger posed to their female partners and their infants. This tragedy is seen as a contributing factor to the mistrust the Black community feels toward public health agencies.
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The __________ is the tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items in a series.
a. tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon b. recency effect c. serial-position effect d. latency effect
What do emerging adults in Korea and China view as an important criterion that signals adulthood?
a. completing military service b. supporting a family financially c. being able to support their parents financially d. emotional self-control
Most children do not understand that death is inevitable until what age?
a. early childhood b. late childhood c. middle childhood d. early teens
Raising a federal question refers to
A. a published court opinion. B. a request that all judges from the pertinent Court of Appeals sit in on a case. C. the authority to review state court decisions that involve constitutional or federal law issues. D. questions allowed in oral arguments.