The genetically programmed time limit for cell replication to which each species is theoretically bound is called
A) life expectancy.
B) maximum reproductive capacity.
C) the Hayflick limit.
D) the telomere.
C
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a. No, they correlate only with school performance. b. They correlate positively only with performance on certain jobs. c. They correlate positively with job performance, health, safe driving, and much else. d. They correlate negatively with social adjustment.
Five-year-old Brian hears the sentence, "Brian, quit clowning around.". He knows all the other words, but he has never heard the word "clowning" before. The fact that he understands that the word "clowning" must be referring to what he is currently doing is best explained as involving ____ cues
a. sentence b. pictorial c. kinetic d. parallax
Which of the following is a critique of the core knowledge approach according to Mark Johnson?
A. Infants come into the world with soft biases to perceive and attend to different aspects of the environment, and to learn about the world in particular ways. B. The core domains provide a foundation from which infants manifest their genetically hardwired manner of understanding the world and develop more mature cognitive functioning and learning. C. Infants come into the world with knowledge systems for space, number sense, object permanence, and language. D. Infants have an innate sense of the world when they are born that is independent of environmental experiences.
An example of a psychosocial resource that has been consistently associated with good psychological and physical outcomes for patients with HIV infection is ______.
A. being low on openness to experience because these individuals are less likely to engage in risky behavior B. having a type C personality C. optimism D. being an introvert