Your friend just gave birth and tells you that the baby's Apgar score was a 10. What can you assume about the baby's condition?
A. The baby is in critical condition because an Apgar score of 10 is extremely low.
B. The baby is doing extremely well because an Apgar score of 10 is the highest.
C. The baby is doing OK because an Apgar score of 10 is in the middle of the range.
D. The baby is doing well because an Apgar score of 10 is just beneath the highest of 15.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
Levon was amazed at a magician's trick in which a person in a box appeared to be sawed in half. Levon had perceived the head at one end of the box and the feet at the other end of the box, as belonging to a single person, rather than two separate people. This error in Levon's understanding illustrates the Gestalt principle of:
a. figure-ground b. proximity c. common fate d. good continuation
Which one of the following is not a good reason to employ a factorial design? To
a. save time by investigating more than one variable b. rule out more than one rival hypothesis c. determine the correlation between two or more variables d. investigate a possible interaction between two or more independent variables
Secondary reinforcers differ from primary reinforcers in that secondary reinforcers
a. can potentially reinforce or punish behavior. b. do not satisfy physical needs whatsoever. c. do not inherently satisfy physical needs. d. only pertain to intangible objects or events, such as praise. e. are harder to achieve.
A predisposition towards developing a disorder
A) increases the likelihood of developing any given disorder by 50%. B) necessarily is biological. C) necessarily is a psycho-social stressor. D) is called a diathesis.