If close relatives also have a shared environment, the correlation between their IQs will
a. decrease.
b. remain the same.
c. increase.
d. become an inverse relationship.
ANSWER: c
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b. reliability. c. validity. d. the ability to identify practice effects.
Pat notices that when thunder can be heard in the distance, her dog, Rudy hides under her desk, and she believes that the thunder causes Rudy to hide. She notices that Rudy does not hide in response to other loud noises, if, for example, she drops a cast iron pan in the kitchen. In experimental terms, Pat has observed ____
a. temporal precedence b. covariation c. plausibility d. causality
If a female rat is exposed to highly stressful experiences late in pregnancy, what happens to the sexual development of her offspring?
A. The genetic males become responsive to male partners. B. The genetic females become responsive to female partners. C. Both male and female offspring become unresponsive to all sexual partners. D. Both male and female offspring become highly aggressive in their sexual behaviors.
Compare and contrast the terms critical period and sensitive period, and discuss how observations of imprinting led to the development of these concepts
What will be an ideal response?