If your identical twin has schizophrenia, what does that mean for you?
A. If you inherited the gene for schizophrenia, you will be diagnosed with schizophrenia too.
B. Your chances of being diagnosed with schizophrenia are not increased as long as you were not raised by the same parents.
C. Your chances of being diagnosed with schizophrenia are the same as the rest of the population-about 1 percent.
D. You have about a 50 percent chance of also being diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Answer: D
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According to the similarities perspective on gender,
a. men and women are quite similar to one another. b. men are quite similar to one another, but women are quite different from one another. c. men are quite different from one another, and women are quite similar to one another. d. men are quite different from one another, and women are quite different from one another; however, we construct similarities within each gender.
Dr. Hu is interested in children's affective responses to studying science. She spends many hours sitting quietly and observing in elementary school classrooms during science instruction, and makes careful notes on all she observes. While observing, Dr. Hu is careful not to interact with the children or to interfere with their behavior in any way. This form of data collection is known as
a. self-report investigation. b. naturalistic observation. c. structured observation. d. case study analysis.
Theories that are created from a solid base of data are called:
a. deductive theories. b. hypothetic-deductive theories. c. inductive theories. d. generalized deductive theories.
Professor Hume has spent the last ten years studying the effects of people's levels of self-esteem on their tendency to discriminate against others. She is most likely to be a
a. social psychologist. b. sociologist. c. personality psychologist. d. political scientist.