What do studies of heritability tell us about intelligence?
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should address the correlation for IQ test scores between pairs of persons
with varying degrees of kinship and intelligence (see Table 11.6 on page 319). A strong answer
will also discuss the possibility of interaction between genetic and environmental factors.
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__________ is the process by which a patient projects feelings about other individuals onto the psychoanalyst.
A. Resistance B. Reactance C. Countertransference D. Transference
Elimination of unnecessary or unused connections between neurons is called
a. synaptic pruning. b. neural degeneration. c. neural integration. d. synaptic degeneration.
When children are used as research participants a. informed consent is not necessary. b. informed consent must be obtained from the parents or legal guardians. c. confidentiality does not matter
d. the issue of "risk" is not important.
The method section should contain enough information for
a. another experimenter to replicate the study. b. the reader to have a general understanding of how the study was done. c. the reader to have a vague idea of how the study was done. d. someone to know exactly what statistical analyses were performed in the experiment.