Which statement best exemplifies the basic premise of behavioral genetics?

a. "Your personality is all in your genes"
b. "Your personality is all in your environment"
c. "People are either very open to new experiences or avoid new experiences at all costs"
d. "Openness to new experience is not an either/or proposition but represents a wide range of reactions"


d

Psychology

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If a cognitive system can be implemented by more than one kind of physical structure, then it is:

a. A non-functional system b. A parietal system c. Multiply realizable d. Non-realizable

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According to your text, almost ____ % of school-age children in the United States receive some level of support through special education

a. 14 b. 16 c. 22 d. 26

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According to the principle of ____, meiosis can result in extreme diversity of genetic outcomes

a. independent assortment b. sex-linked inheritance c. selective breeding d. canalization

Psychology

Despite his great influence on thinking about the moral reasoning of children, as with other aspects of Piaget's theory, young children

a. are often more competent than Piaget believed them to be. b. are often less competent than Piaget believed them to be. c. do not go through well-defined stages. d. are not as predictable as Piaget believed them to be.

Psychology