Kim was adopted as a baby and raised by loving parents in an enriched environment. Studies have shown that ________
a. the intelligence of adopted children is more highly correlated with their biologically unrelated parents than their birth parents.
b. for adults, heritability estimates average around .15 to .20.
c. the scores of fraternal twins reared together are more highly correlated than the scores of identical twins reared apart.
d. as adopted children grow into adulthood, the correlation between their IQ scores and those of their biologically unrelated family members diminishes to zero.
Answer: d
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___________ is the prejudgment or superficial judgment about a particular group of people.*
a. Discrimination b. Prejudice c. Realistic conflict theory d. Social learning
Some support for an evolutionary explanation for aggression comes from gender differences that show
A) men are more aggressive towards other men than towards women. B) women are more aggressive towards men than towards women. C) women are more aggressive towards other women than towards men. D) men are more aggressive towards women than towards other men. E) women are much more aggressive than men.
Skinner originally thought all behavior could be explained in terms of _____, but he eventually decided that this type of behavior could be distinguished from another, seemingly more voluntary type of behavior known as _____ behavior.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Brenda's mother told her to stop her overt behavior. To which behavior might her mother be referring?
A) ?Daydreaming B) ?Thinking C) ?Dreaming D) ?Tapping her foot.