Which of the following could be considered an explanation of the adaptive value of sickle cell trait?
a. Resistance to malaria c. Lowering body temperature
b. Energy conservation d. Normal hemoglobin metabolism
A
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b. cause is to correlation. c. positive is to negative. d. accuracy is to consistency.
According to your textbook, which of the following is true regarding the population level increases in intelligence test scores over time?
A) The increase indicates that children today are actually smarter than their parents were. B) The increase is due to the fact that people are better test takers, not that they are smarter. C) The increase is an illusion created by the way intelligence tests are normed. D) The reasons for the increase are unclear, but may reflect the increased ability to process information quickly.
Which of the following is not an example of a constraint on language learning?
a. Children tend to think that a novel word refers to a whole object, not to just part of an object. b. Children treat new words as labels for unfamiliar objects rather than assigning the new word to an object for which they already know the word. c. Children ignore novel words unless an object is pointed to directly and at the same moment the new word is introduced. d. Children do not treat novel words as synonyms for words they already know.
What personality theory is also called the OCEAN model?
A. MMPI B. Big 5 C. MBTI D. Eysenck's trait theory