What are some common themes related to rites of passage regarding menarche?

What will be an ideal response?


There seems to be a strong belief concerning the power of menstrual blood. Many feel that it presents a danger to crops, health of livestock, likelihood of success of hunters, and the health and well-being of others.

Psychology

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Creativity is most associated with _____, where the aim is fresh and unusual lines of thought

a. convergent thinking b. formal operational processing c. divergent thinking d. postformal processing

Psychology

A major difference between the ‘tend and befriend' stress response and the responses mediated by the autonomic pathway and the HPA axis is that:

a. the tend and befriend response involves cortisol activity. b. men are more likely to express the tend and be-friend response. c. the tend and befriend response facilitates care for offspring and others in a social group. d. the tend and befriend response is a negative stress reaction, whereas the autonomic pathway and HPa axis responses are positive reactions.

Psychology

Older infants and toddlers are more likely to imitate __________ rather than __________

A) adults; children B) arbitrary; purposeful behaviors on objects C) purposeful; accidental behaviors on objects D) a series of actions; a single sensorimotor behavior

Psychology

Mort is going to the supermarket to pick up seven items – a toilet brush, shampoo, apples, toothpicks, baby diapers, a birthday card, and pasta. He has them written down in this order on his shopping list,

but he gets to the store and finds that he's left the list at home. He finds the first few things and the last few things on his list, but for all of his effort he cannot remember that he needed toothpicks. This tendency to forget things that came in the middle of a list of items is called the __________ effect. a. recency b. primacy c. serial position d. pseudoforgetting

Psychology