The automatic biological unfolding of development in an organism over time is known as ______
a. actualization c. potentiation
b. maturation d. imprinting
b
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What is one general difference between descriptive and correlational research methods?
a. Descriptive research does not look at relationships between variables. b. Descriptive research is more useful when one wants to infer causation. c. Correlational research cannot make use of archival data. d. Correlational research allows the researcher to control the participants' actions.
What can we conclude about the self-reference effect?
a. Although early research found evidence of this effect, more recent experiments have been unable to demonstrate it. b. Although the self-reference effect operates with children, it does not apply to adolescents or adults. c. The research shows that people are more likely to recall words that apply to themselves, compared to words that do not apply. d. The self-reference effect is one exception to the general tendency for deep levels of processing to be particularly effective in enhancing memory.
Identical twins reared together and apart tend to score similarly on standardized measures of intelligence. Which of the following statements does this finding support?
a. Intelligence levels are based on environmental factors for both twins reared together and twins reared apart. b. Environmental factors are stronger influences on twins raised together compared to twins reared apart. c. The "intelligence gene" is identical in both twins reared together and reared apart. d. Genes are an important source of individual variations in intelligence scores.
Dynamic assessment is linked to
a. Erik Erikson. c. Lev Vygotsky. b. Albert Bandura. d. Jean Piaget.