Because Radiation Can Have Damaging Effects During the Prenatal Period

question 146

Multiple Choice

Because radiation can have damaging effects during the prenatal period, pregnant women are usually cautioned to avoid:

• A) fish from the oceans off Japan
• B) x-rays that are not essential
• C) eating from glazed pottery dishes
• D) swimming in polluted lakes and rivers

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Definitions:

Emotional Responses

The subjective feelings and physiological reactions elicited by stimuli or events.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of learning that is achieved when an environmental stimulus is associated with one that occurs in nature.

Affective Component

Refers to the emotional aspect of attitudes, encompassing feelings or emotions linked to an attitude object.

Mere Exposure Effect

The phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.