Worldwide, what are the characteristics of children who do not attend school?
What will be an ideal response?
In Africa and South Asia, approximately 20% of the school-age children do not attend school. Male children are often sent to school while female children are kept home. Many families are too poor to pay for school or even uniforms. Further, if children are needed at home for labor purposes, they are kept back.
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Kohlberg believed that _____________________ were central to attaining a higher level of moral reasoning
A. experiences during toddlerhood B. peer interrelatioships C. parental upbringing D. social environment and reasoning
Perspiration, bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea can all result in __________
a) VMH damage. b) extracellular thirst. c) intracellular thirst. d) satiety.
In a study of mothers who used combinations of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during pregnancy, it was found that they produced children who
A. could not be distinguished from those produced by mothers who used alcohol only. B. had less gray matter than other children for the first few weeks of life, but who were subsequently quite normal. C. had less white matter than other children. D. had less gray matter than other children at least until age 10 to 13 years.
Which of the following statements is true regarding mirror neurons?
A) Brain-imaging studies confirm that human adults have especially elaborate systems of mirror neurons. B) Mirror neurons do not appear until visual acuity is fully developed. C) Mirror neurons undergo a short period of development during infancy. D) Mirror neurons develop at the same rate as the development of the child's self-image and ego.