Some Populations Have the Biocultural Capacity to Drink Large Amounts

question 16

Multiple Choice

Some populations have the biocultural capacity to drink large amounts of alcohol with few or no problems. Why might this be so?

• A) Their ancestors came from areas with plenty of good, clean water, and therefore they had highly developed cultural standards for alcohol use.
• B) They are genetically more susceptible to intoxication.
• C) Clean potable water was not often available to their ancestors; those ancestors more capable of metabolizing fermented drink had increased fitness.
• D) They habituate to it, through binge drinking rituals.
• E) Actually, no groups are more capable of metabolizing alcohol than other groups.

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Morpheme

The smallest unit of meaning in a language.

Language Development

The process by which infants and children acquire the ability to understand and produce spoken language.

Mean Length Of Utterance

A measurement used in the study of child language development that calculates the average number of morphemes per sentence in a child's speech sample.

MLU

Mean Length of Utterance, a measure used in language development research to estimate the complexity of children's speech.