Long-term research on children who were in Project Head Start indicates that
a. while early changes in IQ are rare, significant increases in IQ are seen during the college years.
b. compensatory programs like Head Start lead to poorer attitudes about achievement.
c. children in these programs are more likely to end up in special education classes than their peers.
d. participation in such programs may reduce the likelihood of teenage pregnancy.
d
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a. parameter c. population b. statistic d. sample
What is "a relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge that results from previous experience with certain stimuli and responses"?
a. learning c. extinction b. imprinting d. generalization
One reason that very young babies' habituation times are so much longer than those of older babies is that
A) they attend more to familiar rather than novel events. B) they can sustain attention. C) they have difficulty disengaging attention from a stimulus. D) their attention too readily shifts from one stimulus to another.
Sometimes the fetus may try to come through the cervix and vagina feet or buttocks first. This is called a
a. backward birth b. breech birth c. stillbirth d. cesarean birth