What is one argument that nurture plays a role in handedness?
a. Children born preferring their left hands have been encouraged and in some cases forced to use
their right hand in the past.
b. Children appear to choose handedness around age 3.
c. Giving a child items in only the righthand will increase their use of this hand.
d. Fetuses suck on both thumbs while in the womb, showing no preference for one over the other.
a. Children born preferring their left hands have been encouraged and in some cases forced
to use their right hand in the past.
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a. identity; equal unit size b. equal unit size; identity c. identity; magnitude d. magnitude; absolute zero
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a. suicide cannot be studied in a scientific manner b. all suicide stems from mental disorder c. there are many different reasons for suicide d. suicide is basically a sociological phenomenon
Which of the following would you likely see in a typical "boundary violation" between children's play groups in middle childhood?
A) A girl will exit her friendship group as a result of a quarrel or hurt feelings. B) A child will be accepted into a play and friendship group of children of the other gender for an extended period of time. C) Best-friend pairs terminate their friendship bonds and re-form into new groups of friends. D) A brief interaction, such as a "chasing game," will cause one gender-segregated group to breach the barrier of the other gender-segregated group.
Which research method would be most useful in generating hypotheses about the cause of a newly discovered, rare form of abnormality?
a) case study b) correlational method c) experimental design d) single-subject ABAB design