According to your textbook, which one of these statements is the most accurate regarding eyewitness testimonies?
a. They are not accurate and should therefore be disallowed.
b. Though highly variable and easily influenced, they are often reliable.
c. The reports are reliable only if the witness is very certain.
d. Children are more likely than adults to give accurate testimony.
B
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Durston and colleagues (2002, 2006) performed experiments in which children had to press a button ("Go") if they saw certain stimuli and avoid pressing the button ("No-go") if they saw another stimulus. Compared to adults, children's brains __________.
A. worked harder to ignore the non-target stimuli B. could not understand what the non-target stimuli were C. did not have to work as hard to ignore the non-target stimuli D. focused exclusively on the non-target stimuli
Seriation involves
a. the realization that properties of objects do not change even though appearance might be altered. b. understanding that subclasses are included in the whole class. c. understanding the difference between big and small. d. mentally arranging elements along a quantifiable scale.
Which statement about the relationships among income, education, occupational status, and health in the United States is true?
A) Income, education, and occupational status show strong, continuous relationships with almost every disease and health indicator over the lifespan. B) Improving socioeconomic conditions would do little to close ethnic gaps in health because there is no evidence that SES accounts for the white health advantage. C) Variations in health and mortality due to SES are smaller in the United States than in other industrialized nations because poor U.S. families are financially better off. D) In the United States, SES groups experience smaller inequalities in environmental factors that affect health, such as housing, pollution, and education.
In the majority of cases, when a person retires, they stop working altogether.
a. true b. false