The text notes that the rate of infant deaths from sudden infant death syndrome is higher in the winter months than the summer months, suggesting that SIDS may be the result of:

a. problems in regulating body temperature among vulnerable infants
b. infections
c. child abuse, which is also higher during winter months
d. a genetic defect

b

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1. Sensation and perception are related, but separate, events. 2. Sensation and perception occur simultaneously. 3. Perception does not begin until transduction has occurred. 4. Transduction occurs for every sense EXCEPT that of smell. 5. The field of psychophysics was developed by Gustav Fechner.

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Michelle is trying to clasp her necklace. She cannot seem to focus and cannot see to hook the clasp. She has to ask her daughter to fasten the necklace. What is Michelle experiencing?

A. presbycusis B. presbyopia C. nearsightedness D. localized occipital inhibition

Psychology