Explain why people with AIDS have problems with opportunistic diseases
What will be an ideal response?
The attack on the T-helper cells causes the immune system to be less effective in its ability to fight disease.
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On many long-term memory tasks, young adults remember more than older adults. However, the two groups are fairly similar
a. when memory is measured in terms of recognition memory, rather than recall memory. b. when working on an explicit memory task, rather than an implicit memory task. c. when contextual cues are missing. d. when recalling unrelated pairs of English words.
The view that temperament consists of three independent dimensions has been proposed by _______.
a. Jack Block b. David Watson and Lee Anna Clark c. Mary Rothbart d. all of the above
Professor Stevenson and his colleagues observed the motor behavior of children following the administration of a drink with food additives or a drink without the additives. Neither the children nor their observers knew which kind of drink each consumed. This experimental procedure is designed to control for
A. placebo effects. B. tolerance. C. withdrawal. D. the likelihood that some of the children might have ADHD.
Which of the following statements is true of eating disorders?
a. Most overweight people are binge eaters. b. Eating disorders are more common among African-Americans than Whites. c. Up to 20 percent of people who have an eating disorder die from it. d. Bulimics are typically dangerously thin.