Pretend for a moment that people's attitudes toward racial tolerance has a heritability estimate of .10. This indicates that
A) little of the variation in attitudes is due to the environment.
B) most people have unchangeable racist tendencies.
C) most people tolerate people of various races.
D) the variation is due mostly to learning experiences.
D
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Which of these describes the "binding problem"?
a. How people learn to live together in peace b. How excitatory and inhibitory synapses interact to affect a neuron c. How we combine vision, hearing, and touch to perceive an object d. How abilities present in other species evolved into human language
Regarding gender differences in intelligence,
a. males have an advantage because of biased testing. b. males have an advantage because of slightly larger brains. c. females have an advantage because of their higher verbal abilities. d. there are no substantial differences in overall intelligence.
The most influential theory of moral development in psychology is that of:
a) Vygotsky. b) Ainsworth. c) Kohlberg. d) Piaget.
In a correlated groups experiment, if we must estimate the population standard deviation to determine the significance of the sample results, the appropriate statistical test is _________
a. t test c. z test b. sign test d. none of these