Michael Cole and His Colleagues Studied the Memory Performance in Tribal

question 139

Multiple Choice

Michael Cole and his colleagues studied the memory performance in tribal children of rural Liberia on a free recall task of items in four distinct categories. They found:

• A) the use of categories aids recall.
• B) a comparable performance to that of U.S. school children of the same age.
• C) little improvement in performance of nonschooled children after the age of 10.
• D) no difference in memory performance compared to that of children in industrialized Liberian societies.

Examine the disparities in health outcomes related to stress among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

Understand the diathesis-stress model in explaining individual differences in susceptibility to illness under stress.

Distinguish between specific and nonspecific immune responses and their importance in stress-related diseases.

Evaluate the empirical evidence linking stress with specific health outcomes such as heart disease, headaches, and ulcers.

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Definitions:

Enlightenment Thinking

An 18th-century intellectual movement that highlighted the importance of logic, self-reliance, and doubt about established beliefs.

Social Analysis

The systematic examination of the interactions, norms, and structures within a society to understand and explain social phenomena.

Durkheim

Refers to Emile Durkheim, a foundational sociologist who introduced concepts such as social facts, collective conscience, and anomie in the study of societal norms and structures.

Collective Social Forces

The combined influence of societal institutions, structures, and processes that shape individual and group behavior.