When individuals who were born with low birth weight become adolescents, they are more likely to ______________
a. be obese and have poor muscle tone
b. have low IQ scores and repeat a grade
c. suffer from clinical depression
d. have delayed development of secondary sex characteristics
Answer: B
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b. children do not like programs that promote prosocial behavior. c. prosocial programs only affect the behavior of girls. d. prosocial programs are far outnumbered by violent programs.
When identical twins who are raised apart, in separate adoptive homes, show different susceptibilities to a given psychological disorder, it indicates that:
a. environmental factors influence the expression of the disorder b. genetic factors have more influence than environmental factors in the disorder c. both genetics and environmental factors contribute equally to the disorder d. neither genetic factors nor environmental factors contribute to the disorder
In the operant-conditioning procedure of shaping, behaviors that are ordered in terms of increasing similarity or closeness to the desired response are called ________
a. intermittent generalizations b. successive approximations c. intermittent approximations d. successive generalizations
Steve is currently undergoing psychoanalysis. His therapist asks him to write down everything he remembers about his dreams upon awakening. According to Freud's theory of dreaming, Steve is writing about the __________ content of his dreams
A) latent B) patent C) manifest D) marginal