In many parts of the world menarche is the catalyst whereby females enter into a lifelong process of socially constructed monthly rituals. Menstrual-related monthly rituals are remarkably common because ____

a. many cultures are male-dominant and rituals are a means to control women
b. many cultures lack access to medical care and scientific knowledge
c. many cultures have strong beliefs concerning the power of menstrual blood
d. many cultures lack access to informative media such as television and radio

C. Many cultures view menstrual blood as taboo and have created cultural practices to isolate women.

Psychology

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a. Random assignment b. Random selection c. Random probability d. Random purposeful

Psychology

When an independent variable would endanger a human participant's health, we must conduct the research by comparing groups that already have differing degrees of the variable of interest. These are known as _____ experiments

a) partial b) correlational c) quasi d) descriptive

Psychology