Highly coordinated children are picked out at an early age by coaches and given special opportunities to
excel at sports. Extraverted children seek out social situations and become unusually comfortable with
strangers.
Both of these phenomena illustrate
A) how the environment shapes one's genetic endowment.
B) genotype-environment correlations.
C) the polygenic effect of chromosomes on behavior.
D) the power of the phenotype over the genotype.
B
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to the ______________ theory, we want the best we can get from relationships and may need to trade what we have for something the partner is offering
a. social matching b. dating forever c. social attractiveness d. social exchange
A researcher compared the average salary for a sample of first generation college graduates with the average for all college graduates one year postgraduation and found t(99) = –1.59, p > .05, d = .62. Is there a possibility of a Type II error?
A. Yes, the probability of a Type II error is 5%. B. Yes, but we do not know the exact probability. C. No, you cannot have a Type II error when the null hypothesis is rejected. D. No, you cannot have a Type II error when the effect size is moderate or large.
Which of the following statements is true of sensory memory?
A) It has unlimited capacity to store information. B) It is used exclusively for visual stimuli. C) It shows qualitative improvement through early adolescence. D) It retains the trace of a stimuli for a fraction of a second.