Which age group is referred to as the "sandwich generation?"
A. adolescents
B. young adults
C. middle-aged adults
D. older adults
Answer: C
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Scarr and Weinberg's research on social class and IQ showed that
a. children from disadvantaged homes could raise their IQs if adopted into middle-class homes with intelligent adoptive parents. b. children from disadvantaged homes continue to show significant deficits in IQ even after being adopted into middle-class homes with intelligent adoptive parents. c. children from poor economic conditions do not differ significantly in IQ from children from average or above average economic conditions. d. improving the economic conditions of the home has no significant impact on children's IQs because IQ is so strongly affected by genes.
Within the animal kingdom what statement is best supported by evidence?
a. Non-human animals rarely engage in same-sex behaviors b. Some non-human animals, such as penguins, will form lifelong same-sex partnerships. c. Individual animals within non-human species who show same-sex behavior do not engage in other-sex behavior. d. Non-human female animals do exhibit same-sex behaviors, such as mounting another female. This behavior is most common in the presence of other males competing for attention.
After operantly conditioning a rat to press a bar, a psychologist stops providing the reinforcing pellets. The rat eventually stops pressing the bar. Bar pressing has undergone:
A. spontaneous recovery B. extinction C. shaping D. generalization
The way in which the alternatives in a decision problem are presented is called:
a. insight b. framing c. belief persistence d. functional fixedness