The process by which an individual who is uneducated, poor, and predisposed to substance abuse raises offspring who will maintain a poor life with a lack of social opportunities is called
A. degeneration.
B. the trolley dilemma.
C. the distress threshold.
D. the zone of proximal development.
Ans: A
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Sensations are to perception as ____ is to ____.
A. combining; separating B. adaptation; transduction C. meaningless; meaningful D. illusion; constancy
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
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