The diagnostic criteria for mental retardation include an assessment of adaptive functioning because an IQ score is:
A. not a measure of intelligence
B. an insufficient measure of impairment
C. is not adjusted statistically for people of different ages
D. score is always highly inaccurate
B. an insufficient measure of impairment
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The extent to which a person remains aware of his or her own cultural assumptions, as well as the assumptions that others hold, is called cultural ____
a. escalation b. met cognition c. process gain d. process loss
The median is often used because it is insensitive to extreme scores
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Squirting orange juice (US) into a monkey's mouth just after presenting a light (CS) is an
example of the classical procedure. After several pairings of the two stimuli, single-cell recordings from the _________show that cells that previously did not respond to the light now do. This finding suggests a basis for __________. a. brainstem; extinction b. thalamus; conditioned reinforcers c. ventral-tegmental area of the midbrain; blocking d. frontal cortex; expectation e. visual association cortex; discrimination
Research indicates that when girls are exposed to unusually high levels of ________ prenatally, they are more likely to display stereotypical male behaviors
a) testosterone b) estrogen c) androgens d) toxins