According to Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, schools, doctors' offices, and the child's family are all part of the child's
A) microsystem.
B) mesosystem.
C) exosystem.
D) macrosystem.
A
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Which of the following provides some evidence that there is, in fact, a genetic component to handedness?
a. Between monozygotic twins, the likelihood that both children have the same dominant hand is no greater than between fraternal twins or non-twin siblings. b. As teachers have stopped encouraging children to use their right hands, the percentage of left-handed children has risen. c. Societies have favored right-handed people in their design of common objects, such as scissors, can-openers, and school desks. d. The part of the brain that controls handedness, the substantia nigra, develops more fully in right-handed children than in left-handed children.
How does the brain control human behavior?
a. Specific brain regions control specific behaviors. b. Simple behaviors are controlled by specific brain regions; complex behaviors are controlled by the interaction of multiple brain regions. c. It has intricate and overlapping patterns of activity that involve networks made up of many different connected structures. d. Conscious behaviors are controlled by specific brain regions; subconscious behaviors are controlled by the interaction of multiple brain regions.
Dr. Wayne says during a differential diagnosis, "We know that the patient's cognitive disorder is caused by an infectious agent. That automatically rules out ____."
a. syphilis b. encephalitis c. AIDS dementia d. Huntington's disease
Studies (cited in Chapter 7) of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Latin American immigrants in Washington, D.C., and Russian Jewish teens who had immigrated to the U.S., found that when compared to other acculturative strategies,
a. biculturality was less common. b. biculturality was more common. c. biculturality was more adaptive. d. assimilation was most adaptive.