Children reared in poverty generally perform better on standardized intelligence tests than children of higher socioeconomic status.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
Rationale: Correct. Children reared in poverty generally perform less well on standardized intelligence tests than children of higher socioeconomic status, and they are at greater risk for school failure (Robbins et al., 2012). See 9-2: Factors in Cognitive DevelopmentFactors in Cognitive Development
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Many people believe that a person who is serious about committing suicide will not talk about it before attempting to kill themselves. Based on the information presented in your textbook, which of the following is true regarding this issue? a. Younger adolescents are particularly prone to suicidal feelings and suicide
b. Those who talk about suicidal feelings are seeking attention and should be ignored. c. Few suicides are truly spontaneous, and in most cases there are warning signals. d. People who are going to commit suicide usually do not talk about it in advance.
Paracelsus introduced the notion of psychic or mental causes for abnormal behavior and posed a treatment that would become known as
a. behaviorism. b. hypnosis. c. asylums. d. tarantism.
Most suicides come from
a. firearms. b. hanging. c. jumping from a bridge or other high place. d. all of the above are common means of suicide.
The correlation between the amount of formal education people receive and their intelligence is:
A) greater than .5. B) between .3 and .5. C) between .1 and .3. D) almost 0.