Cerebral palsy
A) affects one out of every 100 American children.
B) is caused by brain damage before, during, or just after birth.
C) is usually the result of placenta abruptio or placenta previa.
D) is the result of oxygen deprivation in about 2 percent of cases.
Answer: B
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Valerie is doing homework for her statistics class. When she checks the answer she has just calculated for the problem she has been working on, she finds it is incorrect. She is frustrated and tells her roommate, "I don't know why I'm even trying, I'll never catch on in this course. I should just give up now.". According to Albert Ellis, Valerie's statements reflect
a. defensive coping. b. mental disengagement. c. catastrophic thinking. d. reality-based coping.
Maccoby and Jacklin (1974) found that girls are more likely to comply with the directions of adults than boys, and they are more readily influenced by others than boys are. One explanation your authors offer for these findings is that
a. girls are genetically more docile and conforming than boys b. girls are more empathetic than boys, so they don't want to hurt feelings by disagreeing. c. girls are trained by their mothers to be "agreeable," while boys are trained by their fathers to be "confrontational.". d. girls value harmony and don't want people to start arguing.
Follow-up research on infant cognitive development suggests that mastery of object permanence __________
A) is not possible until age 2 B) occurs in Piaget’s Substage 4 C) is a gradual achievement D) develops suddenly, at around 4 months
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