Which of the following cognitive skills has the highest heritability estimate?

A) spatial reasoning
B) general intelligence
C) English usage
D) processing speed


B) general intelligence

Psychology

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In the context of psychological anthropology, a national character refers to:

a) the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture. b) the belief of a nation that every culture has its own significance and therefore needs to be preserved. c) a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, or sources of authority coexist. d) the perception that each culture has a modal personality type, and that most persons in that culture share aspects of it.

Psychology

In order to examine the relationship between gender, hair color, and intelligence, you would use

a. the Pearson r. b. multivariate analysis. c. the phi coefficient. d. the tetrachoric correlation.

Psychology

An example of a compressed work week involves:

a. working 4 days a week, 10 hours a day b. working 5 days a week, 8 hours a day c. working staggered hours d. sharing the hours with another employee

Psychology

Which of the following terms describes the level at which a certain teratogen becomes harmful?

harmful effect threshold effect risk effect interaction effect

Psychology