Often Times, When People Visit Doctors' Offices, There Are Pictures

question 18

Multiple Choice

Often times, when people visit doctors' offices, there are pictures on the wall meant to have a "calming" effect on the patients. Patients view the pictures and feel more comfortable about the visit because they may imagine they are visiting one of the places in the pictures. This is an example of:

• A) the butterfly effect
• B) the social construction of reality
• C) the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• D) the sociological imagination

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Definitions:

Piedmont Glacier

A broad glacier that forms when an ice sheet or valley glacier spreads out as it moves into less confined topography.

Continental Ice Sheet

A large mass of ice, including glaciers, that covers a large part of a continent.

Shoreline Glacier

A glacier that extends to the sea at its terminus, often calving icebergs into the water.

Glaciers

Large, slow-moving masses of ice that form from the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.