Daily Pressures Compounded by Racism and Prejudice Take a Toll

question 56

Multiple Choice

Daily pressures compounded by racism and prejudice take a toll on many African-Americans in the form of

• A) spontaneous remission.
• B) biofeedback.
• C) natural killer cells.
• D) high blood pressure.

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Definitions:

Environmental Influences

Factors in an individual's surrounding environment that can affect their development, behaviors, health, and overall well-being.

Sensitive Period

In linguistic theory, the period from about 18 months to puberty when the brain is thought to be especially capable of learning language because of its plasticity.

Mean Length of Utterance

A measure used in language development research to calculate the average length of spoken statements or sentences, often used to assess linguistic progress in children.

Morphemes

The smallest units of meaning within a language, which can be a word or a part of a word such as a prefix or suffix.