If you were a member of the Ila people of Zimbabwe and just gave birth, how would others react and respond?
a. They would congratulate and present you with gifts.
b. They would shun you and fear the evil spirits that you brought into the village.
c. They would pity you because the birth process lowered your social status.
d. They would envy you because the status of motherhood is near godlike.
A. The Ila people view birth as a joy and an event that should be celebrated. Women attending the birth, the woman's husband, and other male relations all congratulate the new mother.
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a. people are especially likely to be confident that they correctly identified a person's face if they are familiar with this person. b. people are surprisingly accurate in identifying the faces of both familiar and unfamiliar persons. c. people are surprisingly inaccurate in identifying the faces of both familiar and unfamiliar persons. d. compared to other people, police officers are more accurate on this face-recognition task.
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a) depletes our energy and provides us with limited ability to maintain self-control at a later time. b) is like a muscle in that the more we practice self-control, the easier it becomes to self-regulate. c) increases our ability to accomplish future goals that require self-regulation. d) allows us to conserve energy for use on more important tasks.