In manipulating independent variables, which types of variables involve the physical or social features of the surroundings that the participants experience?
a. Environmental variables
b. Instructional variables
c. Task or activity variables
d. Invasive variables
a
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The fact that parents provide their children with both their genes and an environment that is impacted by their own genetic make-up defines the gene-environment correlation of
a. active genotype-environment. b. evocative genotype-environment. c. passive genotype-environment. d. negative genotype-environment.
If a female rat is exposed to highly stressful experiences late in pregnancy, what happens to the sexual development of her offspring?
A. The genetic males become responsive to male partners. B. The genetic females become responsive to female partners. C. Both male and female offspring become unresponsive to all sexual partners. D. Both male and female offspring become highly aggressive in their sexual behaviors.
Compared to earlier findings on social facilitation, what do recent findings show about what happens to people's performance in the presence of others?
a) Performance improves in people with high achievement motivation. b) Performance improves on easy tasks but suffers on difficult tasks. c) Performance decreases on both easy and difficult tasks when being observed by someone of the opposite sex. d) Performance on interesting tasks increases, but performance on boring tasks decreases.
Suppose that Dan's parents believe that it is normal and healthy for young children to have many fears
David's parents, on the other hand, believe that a fearful child is unhealthy and that parents should worry if their child expresses many fears. Generalizing from research cited in the text, you would expect that: a. Dan would express more fears than David b. David would express more fears than Dan c. Dan would be happier than David d. David would be happier than Dan