Which of the following statements is not true concerning midwife deliveries?
a. Midwives have received positive evaluations.
b. Compared to physicians, midwives deliver fewer cesarean births.
c. Midwife deliveries require less medication than deliveries performed by physicians.
d. Babies delivered by midwives form stronger attachments to the mother than to the father.
D
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Maria and Michael have just been told that their newborn child has tested positive for PKU. What does this mean?
a. The condition can be cured through medication. b. The illness can be controlled through a strict exercise regimen. c. The condition will disappear by the time their child is six months old. d. Their child can develop normally if placed on a special diet early.
Based on your text's discussion of culture and anxiety-related disorders, which disorder is most likely to to show variability in prevalence across cultures based on variability in the living conditions for people of different cultural backgrounds?
a. PTSD b. Generalized anxiety disorder c. Phobia d. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
According to Wittgenstein, disputes among philosophers and psychologists typically occur when:
a. terms and concepts are not operationally defined b. there are debates over linguistic practices c. the tenets of science are violated d. the profit motive is involved
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Direct observation of people rarely leads to inaccurate stereotypes. 2. We tend to underestimate the variability among members of a category. 3. We tend to underestimate the variability among members of different categories. 4. The self-fulfilling prophecy is the tendency for people to see what they expect to see. 5. When participants in Steele and Aronson's study (1995) were asked to list their race at the top of an exam, African American students scored more poorly than did their SAT scores suggested they should.