Which individual exhibits savant syndrome?
a) John, an eighth grader, who reads college level material
b) Jim, a high school graduate, can take a car apart and rebuild it
c) Sheila, who has a graduate degree and can write complicated computer programs
d) Dan, diagnosed with mental retardation but capable of drawing beautiful works of art
D
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A) fixed-ratio schedule B) fixed-interval schedule C) variable-ratio schedule D) variable-interval schedule
One of the difficulties with interpreting group-differences in intelligence, is that these studies are almost all
A) experimental. B) correlational. C) biased. D) unfalsifiable.
A(n) ______ is another name for a standardized score.
A. sample score B. normal score C. z score D. average
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a. acute stress b. obsessive-compulsive c. social anxiety d. generalized anxiety