What are some reasons for age segregation in the United States?

What will be an ideal response?


Age grading was the basic organizing principle of the universal, free education model developed in the mid-1800s.
Also, competition between members of grades is sometimes encouraged. Child labor laws also removed
adolescents from the workforce where, in the past, they often interacted with adults.

Psychology

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Social norms are best defined as

a. the tendency to go against what others are doing. b. cross-cultural expectations for behavior that are devoid of social context. c. genetic-based programming that results in the expression of specific behaviors. d. expectations of how to behave in a given social context.

Psychology

Contemporary private practice is dominated by

a. long-term, fee-for-service clinical work. b. a resurgence of client-centered therapy. c. clinical work within a managed care context. d. personality assessment.

Psychology

Hinduism, the religion of India for most of its history, concentrates on an individual's cycle of birth and rebirth, or ____

a. polygamy c. celibacy b. karma d. asceticism

Psychology

Which model was a good predictor for classifying people when attributes, such as marital status, do not differ along continuous dimensions?

a. nearest neighbor c. feature frequency b. prototype d. average distance

Psychology