You worked for 10 years after high school and have now decided to go back to college. One of the courses you will be taking first semester is World Civilization. You had World History when you were in tenth grade. However, as you go through your college history class, you realize that you are learning this material very quickly because you must have retained memories from your high school history
class. This story illustrates
a. recall.
b. constructive processing.
c. recognition.
d. relearning.
D
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a. Psychological b. Biological c. Societal d. Cultural
Which historical trend has been noted with respect to performing household tasks?
a. Men spend more time on housework than women. b. The differences in the amount of time men and women spend on household tasks have been increasing. c. Less time is devoted to childcare today than in the past. d. Less time is devoted to household tasks today than in the past.
Considering health alone, the optimal age for a woman to have a baby is between about
a. 16 and 25 years of age. c. 19 and 35 years of age. b. 16 and 35 years of age. d. 18 and 40 years of age.
Research has shown that a person's height is about 81 percent heritable, whereas his or her body mass index (BMI) is about 59 percent heritable. Which of the following is the most accurate interpretation of these findings? a. The variability we see in a population's height is more influenced by genetic factors than the variability we see in the population's weight. b. Environmental factors
account for only 19 percent of a person's height and 41 percent of a person's BMI. c. We cannot make any conclusions about genetic contributions to either height or weight. d. Knowing the relative genetic contributions to traits such as height or weight does not allow us to compare these two unrelated characteristics of people.