What are the impacts of prejudice and discrimination in relation to negative health outcomes?

What will be an ideal response?


Research indicates that experience, and even the perception, of racial discrimination may lead to increases in anger and cardiovascular reactivity. Discrimination increases the occurrence of risk-taking behavior and predicts lower levels of well-being for women.

Psychology

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Which brain structure performs the initial processing of visual stimuli?

A. thalamus B. cornea C. fovea D. visual association areas

Psychology

Explain why initial research on receptive language during the first year of life overestimated infant understanding of words

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

When you engage in behavior in response to an order by a powerful person, you are experiencing:

a. conformity c. compliance b. constancy d. obedience

Psychology

The activation of neurons in the visual cortex by visual stimuli of a particular shape or pattern is known as ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Psychology