It is important to distinguish between shared and nonshared environments when determining what type of experiences contribute to intelligence because:

A) environmental factors have more influence on intelligence than genes.
B) genes have no influence on intelligence compared with the environment.
C) two people who live in the same household will have some, but not all, experiences in common.
D) genes and environment contribute equally to intelligence.


C) two people who live in the same household will have some, but not all, experiences in common.

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Freud selected Jung to be the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association because ____

a. ?like himself, Jung was not German b. ?Jung was not Jewish c. ?Jung was an established psychiatrist d. ?Jung was younger e. ?he strongly desired a reconciliation with Jung

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Bartlett in his book, Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, demonstrated that:

a. memory is greatly influenced by personal, cognitive themes and schemas b. memories of details remain relatively unchanged throughout one’s lifetime c. information is stored in a serial fashion d. memory is greatly influenced by laws of association

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The process by which nerve impulses conducted down the axons of neurons coated with myelin jump from gap to gap in the myelin layer is called a(n) __________ conduction

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

If x = [1, 2, 3] and y = [6, 5, 4], then r = –1

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