In the 1970s, what medication did physicians frequently prescribe to pregnant women to prevent miscarriages which was later found to cause the daughters of the women who took the medication to develop a rare form of vaginal or cervical cancer and to have more difficult pregnancies?


Answer: DES (diethylstilbestrol)

Psychology

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Institutional racism is closely related to and often used interchangeably with

a. individual racism. b. internalized racism. c. structural racism. d. All of the above.

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In Rousseau’s opinion, if people surrendered their individual will to the general will, ________.

a. we would all be noble savages b. society would break down c. democracy would be impossible d. we could have a utopian society

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The development of prelinguistic vocalizations by infants follows which order?

a. crying, babbling, and cooing c. crying, cooing, and babbling b. crying, cooing, and holophrasing d. crying, babbling, and single words

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