Every morning when they get to work, the crew of the local donut store waits to be told what to do by their manager. Some of them clean, some of them cook, and some of them do paperwork
It is the manager who instructs each individual employee on their tasks for the day. If you were to relate the manager to the human genetic system, the manager is serving as a(n):
a) human genome.
b) chromosome.
c) DNA molecule.
d) epigenome.
ANS: D, The epigenome can be thought of as a manager, or director, of the entire human genome.
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A. reliability B. validity C. norms D. equality
Liam is learning the values, behaviors, and roles of his culture. In other words, Liam is experiencing a. direct instruction
b. counterimitation. c. authoritative parenting. d. socialization.
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A) cognitive control; emotional information B) emotional information; cognitive control C) reward learning; cognitive control D) emotional information; language and creativity
According to theory assumptions, which of the following is true concerning Kohlberg and Piaget?
a. Like Piaget's stage theory, Kohlberg's theory is comprised of four distinctly separate stages. b. Reaching the postconventional stage requires functioning at Piaget's preoperational stage. c. Reaching the postconventional stage requires functioning at Piaget's formal operations stage. d. Levels of moral development are unrelated to levels of cognitive development.