The correlation between IQ scores and college grades is .5. What does this correlation suggest?
A) One's IQ determines one's college grade point average.
B) High levels of intelligence cause students to get good grades.
C) Low levels of intelligence cause students to get bad grades.
D) The higher one's IQ score, the higher one's college grades tend to be.
Answer: D
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a. shaping. b. the instrumental step. c. acquisition. d. latent learning.
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a. unconditioned stimulus b. unconditioned response c. conditioned stimulus d. conditioned response
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