The Following Are Examples of Macro-Level Racial Projects Except For…

question 5

Multiple Choice

The following are examples of macro-level racial projects except for…

• A) State legislators passing immigration laws.
• B) A hospital worker assuming that a Latino patient can't speak English .
• C) Blacks demonstrating against the verdicts passed down on the Rodney King, George Zimmerman, or the Jenna Six cases.
• D) White labor unions picketing meatpacking plants for hiring cheap immigrant labor.
• E) "Stop and frisk" laws passed to encourage stopping non-white who might be suspicious of holding drugs.

Differentiate between the cognitive abilities of different age groups (e.g., 4-year-olds vs. 11-year-olds).

Describe the benefits and processes of metacognition in learning and cognition.

Illustrate the application of control processes like selective attention in managing the flow of information.

Explain the application of pragmatics and changes in language use according to the social context.

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Definitions:

Oedipal Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory describing a child's feelings of desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards their same-sex parent.

Castration Anxiety

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a child's fear of losing their genitalia, believed to play a role in the development of certain complexes and behaviors.

Behaviourism

A psychological approach to understanding abnormal behaviour devised by John B. Watson (1858–1935), which declared that psychology must be restricted to the study of observable features, that is, the behaviour of organisms. Watson considered abnormal functioning to be learned and so believed it could be unlearned. His model for learning was derived from Ivan Pavlov’s (1849–1936) studies of classical conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.