A researcher finds that, on average, the firstborns at one high school have higher grades than second- and third-born children. Other than birth order, what else might explain this result?
a. Children who get good grades in elementary school tend to do well in high school also.
b. Some parents give their children more attention than others do
c. More recent generations tend to do better on tests than those born earlier.
d. More recent generations tend to do better on tests than those born earlier.
d
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Which outcome has not demonstrated in research on physical attractiveness?
a. Attractive students were able to solicit more signatures on a petition than unattractive students. b. Unattractive defendants received larger court fines than attractive defendants. c. Teachers expect attractive children to be smarter and achieve more than unattractive children. d. Attractive employees earn approximately the same salaries as unattractive employees.
Differentiate between nerves and neurons
What will be an ideal response?
B. F. Skinner believed that language is learned just like all other behaviors, through ______.
A. trial and error B. classical conditioning C. operant conditioning D. socialization
In preschoolers, _____ enables other areas of the brain to compensate for injuries to particular areas of the brain
A) elasticity B) specificity C) efficacy D) plasticity