The case of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins is important because
A. psychological research and theory on sex stereotyping was presented in court by an expert witness
B. the Supreme Court admitted testimony on the battered woman syndrome.
C. for the first time, a Supreme Court opinion acknowledged that psychological research was the determining factor in its opinion.
D. Hopkins, who was to be executed, received a new trial.
A
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Longitudinal and/or cross-sectional research is often necessary to determine
a. how disorders change and progress over a typical patient's lifetime. b. the genetic causes of a particular disorder c. the environmental causes of a particular disorder. d. the biological causes of a particular disorder.
Which of the following is true of the social cognitive theory?
A) It pays less attention to genetic variation in explaining individual differences in behavior. B) It tends to be more descriptive than explanatory. C) It gives less attention to person variables such as values and expectancies. D) It subdues the importance of publicly observable variables or behaviors.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The heritability of intelligence generally increases with the age of the sample measured. 2. As the number and variety of nonshared experiences in a population increase, the heritability coefficient of intelligence will decrease. 3. The IQ correlation between siblings decreases as the age difference between them increases. 4. First-born children tend to have higher IQs than do their later-born siblings. 5. Absolute intelligence tends to increase over the course of an individual's lifetime.