Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about infantile amnesia.
Unlike amnesia in adults, infantile amnesia is not a disorder but a normal condition: It is one's inability to recall events that occurred before the age of about ... years. Some researchers explain this phenomenon as a consequence of the toddler brain's immature ..., while others see a connection to the pace of ... development. A third camp holds that young children do not yet ... enough to encode sensory information effectively.

Which group had an easier time adapting to american life because of similar backgrounds?

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject.a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher.wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners.acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.

Sociology is best described as the systematic study of