When Noam bumps into a table, he says to it, "You bumped into me because you're mean." Noam is exhibiting
A. the cardinality principle.
B. animism.
C. irreversibility.
D. egocentrism.
Answer: B
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Schizophrenia researchers have paid particular attention to poor development of the
a. occipital lobe of the brain. b. cortextual lobe of the brain. c. temporal lobe of the brain. d. thalamic lobe of the brain.
The study of how genotype interacts with environment to influence behavioral attributes is called
a. generational genetic progressivism. b. Darwinian determinism. c. reactionary eugenics. d. behavioral genetics.
Giving back information to an individual that evaluates his or her actions and states what the receiver understood is called
A. Feedup B. Feedback C. Feeddown
Imagine that a researcher measures a specific psychological characteristic (SPC) in pairs of siblings who are being reared together. She finds a correlation of .15 between pairs of adopted siblings who are biologically unrelated, a correlation of
63 for fraternal twins, and a correlation of .92 for identical twins. These results suggest that A) compared to the impact of the environment, genetics contributes relatively little to variability in the SPC. B) the shared environment contributes greatly to the variability in the SPC only among the identical twins. C) both the environment and genetics contribute substantially to the variability in the SPC. D) relative to the influence of genetics, the environment contributes relatively little to variability in the SPC.