A study that Williams and Umberson (1999) conducted with expectant couples found that
A. the expectant father and the expectant mother felt differently about the medical technologies (such as sonograms or fetal monitoring) that were used.
B. the information gained from medical technologies helped the woman adopt a more experience-oriented approach to childbirth.
C. the use of an epidural injection to reduce the mother's pain had relatively little effect on either the mother's or the father's experience.
D. most couples said that they wished there was even more technology available to assist them.
Answer: A
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a. All of the children who were deprived of sensitive interaction with caregivers their first year of life demonstrated physical, cognitive, and social-emotional impairment throughout their lives. b. The brain has the capacity to compensate and self-correct from detrimental early experiences, but neuroplasticity decreases as the frequency, chronicity and intensity of the negative experience increase. c. Children deprived of sensitive interactions with caregivers for their first several years of life were found to have impaired brain activity and more psychiatric disorders than children who were never institutionalized. d. Institutionalized children who were placed in sensitive foster care before their second birthday showed higher IQ scores and other positive gains than those who remained institutionalized.
An example of a negative attitudinal barrier is:
a) only providing tasks commiserate with IQ to students with severe physical disabilities b) providing more wait time for students with physical or multiple disabilities c) dispelling unrealistic positive attitudes d) assuming that adaptations change over time
Completing college doesn't have to be the end of your education. Attending college starts you down the path of
A. lifelong learning. B. service learning. C. community service. D. P.O.W.E.R. Learning.
Which best describes the sleeper effect?
a. Children whose parents are high in control yet poor in responsiveness tend to have increasing difficulties as they get older. b. Children whose parents have been divorced for many years may encounter difficulties again during adolescence. c. Children neglected by their peers when young are increasingly likely to be rejected as they get older. d. The predetermined beliefs that we have about others tend to come true over time as a result of our behaviors arising from those beliefs.