Explain and discuss the factors relating to college dropout
What will be an ideal response
Half of all college students drop out • Factors: o lower high school academic achievement o African American and Latino college students have higher dropout rates o lower SES o lack of financial aid o personal concerns (marriage, family responsibilities, health problems, accepting a new job)
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a. extinguish. b. increase. c. decrease. d. remain the same but extinction will take longer.
According to Shari Diamond, psychologists seeking to influence the courts should focus on trouble cases; these are cases
A. where legal doctrine doesn't provide the court with guidance. B. in which psychological research conflicts with past court decisions. C. which reflect unpopular causes, such as the rights of sexual predators to return to society after punishment. D. in which lower courts have disagreed with each other.
Which of the following refers to the actual, measurable space between two people or things?
A. propinquity effect B. mere exposure C. physical distance D. functional distance
When information ____________ has the most influence on people, the primacy effect has occurred. When information ____________ has the most influence on people, the recency effect has occurred.
a. experienced secondhand; experienced firsthand b. experience firsthand; experienced secondhand c. presented last; presented first d. presented first; presented last