Adoption studies have shown that
A) the quality of an adoptive home has no effect on intelligence.
B) genetic inheritance has no effect on intelligence.
C) adopted children mostly resemble their biological parents' levels of intelligence, but the environment also makes a difference.
D) some children seem to inherit their intelligence while others seem only to be influenced by their environments.
C
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Trinh is a famous chef. Since she does not like to share her secret family recipes, she does not write down her special creations, which makes it difficult to remember their ingredients. To aid her memory, she has created a unique "mental walk" that she takes to recall each recipe. For each one, she has a familiar "route" she can imagine walking through (e.g., from the end of her driveway to her living room) where she places each item in the recipe somewhere along the way (e.g., fish sauce splattered on the front door). By doing so, Trinh is using ___________ to organize her memories.
A. mental synthesis B. paired-associate learning C. the pegword technique D. the method of loci
Irreversibility refers to the preoperational child's tendency to
focus on something other than appearances. use deductive reasoning to solve a problem. be unable to think backwards from a conclusion to the beginning. engage in centration when another solution is needed.
In general, the function of hormones is to ________
a. enable neurons to excite or inhibit each other. b. modulate the effects of neurotransmitters. c. affect the functioning of target organs and tissue. d. reduce pain and promote pleasure.
The chemicals that allow the transmission of signals between neurons are called
A. reuptake inhibitors. B. hormones. C. neurotransmitters. D. genes.