The early 20th-century American government policy of sterilizing mentally retarded females is an example of ____
a. artificial selection
b. eugenics
c. product-moment correlations
d. Darwin's theory of evolution
e. natural selection
b
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"Heuristic" is another word for ____
a. causation b. network c. pathway d. shortcut
According to the chapter, a useful metaphor in guiding research ethics is to think of participants as:
a. blank slates. b. children in need of protection. c. colleagues. d. encyclopedia full of information waiting to be "read."
According to Aquinas, predestination maintains that:?
a. ?God has preordained which people will be granted salvation b. ?good deeds can bring one closer to salvation c. ?salvation will come if one accepts Jesus as the son of God d. ?sin must precede repentance and salvation
Decasper and Spence (1986) had pregnant participants read The Cat in the Hat to their fetuses during the last 6 weeks of pregnancy. Which of the following sentences best describes their findings?
a. Newborns showed a preference for their mother's voice reading over a stranger's voice reading. b. Newborns showed a preference for their mother's voice reading any rhythmic story over a non-rhythmic story. c. Newborns showed a preference for their mother's voice reading Cat in the Hat over another rhythmic story. d. Newborns showed a preference for any adult woman's voice reading Cat in the Hat over another rhythmic story.