If a trait is strongly influenced by genetic factors, you would expect to find that
a. adopted children resemble their biological parents more than their adoptive parents on that trait.
b. adopted children resemble their adoptive parents more than their biological parents on that trait.
c. dizygotic twins would be more similar on that trait than monozygotic twins would be.
d. dizygotic twins would be more similar on that trait than siblings would be.
a
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a. preparedness. b. stimulus discrimination. c. stimulus generalization. d. negative avoidance.
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a. ?Type A personality b. ?Type B personality c. ?hardy personality d. ?strong personality
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A. The sense of vision is fully developed during the zygote stage. B. At birth, infants are far-sighted. C. Infants can see as well as adults when they are two months old. D. Vision is the sense that is least developed in the fetus.
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Within a week after the stroke, Lily who is normally an outgoing and energetic person, started to withdraw from family and friends and lost interest in most of her hobbies. Her movements became extremely sluggish. Lily's family finally insisted that she see her doctor when it became increasingly difficult for her to name objects/people and her speech became less fluent. Given this information, Lily may be suffering from A) pseudodementia. B) vascular depression. C) vascular dementia. D) multi-infarct dementia.