Studies of heritability in humans that assume that if genes influence a certain trait, close relatives should be more similar with that trait than distant relatives are called ______ studies

a. family c. strain
b. twin d. selection


a

Psychology

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a. There is pressure toward conformity. b. There is a high degree of self-censorship. c. There is a sense of moral superiority. d. There is a weak, non-directive group leader.

Psychology

Abraham Maslow emphasized the importance of self-actualization, by which he meant

a. our expectations about whether our efforts can achieve desired outcomes or whether outcomes are influenced by factors outside our control b. our innate drive to become all that we are capable of being c. our beliefs about our own abilities to perform tasks we set out to accomplish d. our ability to plan courses of action to achieve our goals and to reward ourselves for accomplishing our goals e. our idealized sense of who and what we should be

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"The bigger they are, the harder they fall" describes

a. a positive linear correlation. b. a negative linear correlation. c. no correlation. d. a nonlinear correlation.

Psychology

"Use it or lose it" would most likely be associated with:

a. decay theory. b. replacement theory. c. cue-dependent forgetting. d. interference theory.

Psychology