What can we learn from Harry and Margaret Harlow's rhesus monkey studies?

a. Emotional damage due to long-term social isolation can be healed with subsequent nurturing.
b. Long-term social isolation early in life can cause irreversible damage.
c. Long-term and short-term social isolation have similar effects.
d. All emotional damage due to social isolation goes away on its own with time.


Answer: b. Long-term social isolation early in life can cause irreversible damage.

Sociology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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a. has continuously declined since 1960. b. has continuously increased since 1980. c. increased between 1989 and 1993, and has since decreased. d. has remained the same for 20 years.

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An important trend in rural areas, causing social change for millions of Americans, is:

a. the greater number of small towns residents who are elderly, and a smaller portion who are children and young adults b. their affordability which acts as a magnet to draw businesses from cities to small towns c. unionization that has organized rural workers into a powerful political voice d. the growth in the number of small farms, organic farming, and sustainable agriculture

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When a corporation in the U.S. relocates its plants to a country where prevailing wages are lower than in the U.S., this is the final stage of

A. modernization. B. postmodernization. C. deindustrialization. D. downsizing.

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