Many studies show a relationship between parents' behavior and their children's behavior. However, the relationship is weak for parents and their adopted children. What conclusion is likely?
a. Biological children are more variable than adopted children
b. Adopted children are more variable than biological children.
c. Rearing patterns control most of children's personality development.
d. Much of the reported parent–child similarity is due to genetics.
d
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The process by which the brain interprets stimuli and turns them into meaningful representations of the external world is
a. sensation. b. perception. c. attention. d. memory. e. psychokinesis.
Although she is 85 years old and in great physical and mental health, Gerta strongly believes that "old people" are stupid and frail. This belief provides a good example of
a. plasticity. b. ageism. c. the secular trend. d. a delusional state of mind.
Your textbook discusses research showing that people have better acuity for mental images that are visualized in the center of the retina, rather than in the periphery of the retina. The reason that this research is significant is that
a. it offers strong support for the propositional approach to mental images. b. it demonstrates that the previous imagery research had been influenced by experimenter expectancy. c. the research is similar to the results obtained when people perceive actual visual stimuli. d. it demonstrates that individual differences in visual imagery are actually very small.
The presentation pattern that is in place when repetitions of to-be-remembered information are presented without any breaks is referred to as:
a. massed practice b. distributed practice c. the serial position curve d. chunking