The reason that many more Native American, African-American, and Alaskan Native children drown than white American children is because
A) of cultural differences about the value of learning to swim.
B) there are more hospitals in white neighborhoods.
C) white children are not permitted near the water.
D) of cultural differences in how closely children need to be supervised.
A
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Studies of children's metamemory show that
a. young children seem to have no knowledge of the way their memory works. b. young children don't seem to realize that you must use effort in order to learn a list of words. c. there are no substantial improvements in metamemory during childhood. d. children are surprisingly accurate in judging whether they have remembered an answer correctly.
Which of the following is NOT true of the problem of demand characteristics?
a. Demand characteristics are less important in research that does not involve deception and in which participants are encouraged to perform as accurately as possible. b. Avoiding demand effects is important consideration in social psychological research. c. Participants in social psychological research often do not comply with the demands of the experimenter. d. Demand characteristics are a source of experimental error.
After conducting many studies in search of the engram, Lashley concluded that the engram
a. is not located in the brain. b. will most likely never be found. c. will be found in certain localized regions of the brain. d. was widely distributed throughout the entire cortex.
Every time baby Gloria nurses, she is placed on a nursing pillow. Gloria’s mother later notices that each time Gloria is placed on the pillow, she makes sucking movements. In this example, __________ is the conditioned stimulus
A) breast milk B) sucking C) crying D) placement on the pillow