Your sister-in-law frequently comments on how many traits you seem to have in common with your eight-year-old niece. You share your extensive knowledge on genetics and explain that the chance you share an allele with your niece is ____
a. one sixteenth
b. one eighth
c. one fourth
d. one half
ANSWER:
c
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Which statement concerning current teen sexuality is the United States is true?
a. The sexual double standard is as strong as ever. b. Early sexual involvement is more common in teens whose parents became parents later in life. c. Teens tend to view oral sex as significantly less "intimate" than did their parents' generation. d. Teenage males are more likely than females to view their first sexual intercourse experience as "disappointing.".
After men who reported being passionately in love received a nasal spray of oxytocin, they rated ____
a. all women as more attractive b. all women as less attractive c. their partners but not other women as less attractive d. their partners but not other women as more attractive
Mina's teacher expected her to be a troublemaker like her older brother and treated her with suspicion. Despite this, Mina did very well in the class. Which piece of research on self-fulfilling prophecies is relevant?
A. What looks like a self-fulfilling prophecy may be an accurate assessment by the teacher. B. It is unclear whether self-fulfilling prophecies tend to do more harm than good. C. Self-fulfilling prophecies can be especially influential on students who belong to groups that are already stigmatized. D. Self-fulfilling prophecies do occur in the classroom, but they are only one of many influences on student achievement.
Suppose that you have been given a short list of words to memorize. After you have read
through the list once, you discover that you can remember the last four words easily. This result is an example of a. Peterson and Peterson's recall procedure. b. proactive remembering. c. the primacy effect. d. the recency effect. e. the chunking procedure.