An implicit cultural norm has been violated when ________
a. taxes are due on April 15 but a person doesn't file a return.
b. a parent allows a 13-year-old to get behind the wheel for a short drive home.
c. a driver accelerates during a yellow light in order to cross the intersection.
d. the school library is almost completely empty but a student sits right next to a stranger.
Answer: d
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a. Because the heightened influence of teratogens in the world today has actually extended the duration of pregnancy from conception to delivery. b. Because pregnancy usually begins two weeks after a woman's menstrual period, and that is the time from which the beginning of pregnancy is measured. c. Because the duration of pregnancy actually gets longer as a woman ages, and it ranges from 38 to 42 weeks. 40 weeks is the average, so that is what people say. d. Because physicians want to allow for a two-week "window" at the end of the pregnancy so that women do not become concerned if they have not delivered by the end of the 38th week.
Individuals who believe that abilities and talents are malleable have a(n) _____ mindset
a. fixed b. growth c. internal d. external
V.J. suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to the biological perspective, he is likely to show ____
a. preparedness in the objects he uses for compulsive behavior b. abnormally low levels of metabolism in the locus ceruleus c. an excess of the neurotransmitter serotonin d. increased metabolic activity in the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere
The term consciousness refers to:
a. a state of objective awareness b. a state of subjective awareness c. awareness of external events, but not internal events d. awareness of internal events, but not external events