1. in a study by batson et al. (1988) participants listened to a student describe how her parents were killed in a car crash leaving her to finish her last year of college alone, and supporting two younger siblings varied one aspect of the study- either focus on how the person feels or focus on technical parts of the audio story. this result is an example of what factor as predictive of altruism?

But on an april morning in 1959, i heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from new york, say in a tone of quiet desperation, “the problem.” and the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. which best describes the connotation of the word “desperation”? negative, because the woman is feeling confused negative, because the woman is expressing hopelessness positive, because the woman is expressing herself positive, because the woman and the mothers are in agreement

Look at the historical context sheet. how might settlers’ attitudes towards native americans have changed from the 1630s to the 1650s? how might settlers’ attitudes toward the land have changed from the 1630s to the 1650s? explain you answer. (4 points)

What are objects called that have value in and of themselves as well as value as a means of exchange? custom commodity money currency simple money