What do research findings indicateabout the use of social support during labor?
What will be an ideal response?
Social support is important to the success of natural childbirth. Mothers who are supported during labor and delivery—either by a doula (a trained lay birth attendant) or by a relative or friend with doula training—less often have instrument-assisted or cesarean deliveries or need medication to control pain. Also, their babies’ Apgar scores are higher, and they are more likely to be breastfeeding at a two-month follow-up. Social support also makes Western hospital-birth customs more acceptable to women from cultures where assistance from family and community members is the norm.
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In comparing memory capabilities in children who were experts at chess with the memories of adults who weren't, Chi (1978) tested both groups on memory of location of chess pieces and on ability to remember sequences of digits. She found that the
a. children did better on both tests. b. adults did better on both tests. c. children did better on memory of chess, but not sequences of digits. d. children did better on memory of digits, but not on memory of chess.
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder
a. often attempt suicide. b. enjoy being with others. c. are unlikely to marry. d. likely developed the disorder during adolescence. e. do not recognize that their thinking and behavior are unreasonable.
Theories of cognitive evolution argue that ideas originate and change, just as species originate and change, through the processes of ___ and ___
a. variation and automatization b. automatization and encoding c. encoding and selection d. variation and selection
Recently your friends' 8-year-old daughter has made prejudiced comments about members of other racial groups. Your friends don't find this behavior acceptable and they want to reduce their daughter's prejudice
What advice can you give your friends? What will be an ideal response?