Marita is an African-American child who was adopted into an economically well-off white family when she was a baby. Findings from several adoption studies predict that Marita will
A) have an IQ considerably below that of white children growing up in similar families.
B) attain a mean IQ 20 to 30 points higher than the typical scores of children growing up in low-income black communities.
C) experience a 20- to 30-point drop in IQ between early childhood and adolescence.
D) remain below the national average in IQ throughout childhood and adolescence.
B
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Genetically,
a. handedness seems to run in families to some degree. b. handedness is entirely environmentally determined. c. 100% of people are born to be right-handed. d. 50% of people are born to become right- or left-handed.
You tell your parents about the "funny stories" that your psychology teacher uses to explain various concepts and theories. Your parents respond that they are not sending you to college to hear "funny stories" and that the teacher should lecture on the subject like when they went to college. Which barrier to problem solving is illustrated by your parents' comment?
a. emotional barrier b. cultural barrier c. learned barrier d. perceptual barrier
If you learn about the world through observation and experimentation, you are relying upon:
a. a hypothesis. b. inference. c. deduction. d. empiricism.
According to Jung, ____ is the process by which the various components of the personality are manifested within the context of a person's life.?
a. ?teleology b. ?displacement c. ?individuation d. ?thanatos