If a cognitive psychologist is studying whether difficulty doing a task predicts the amount of activity in a certain brain area, task difficulty is the __________ variable, and brain activity is the __________ variable. (Give names, not symbols.)

Scarr and McCartney proposed the theory of genotype -> environment effects. Which subtype occurs when a person's inherited characteristics bring about responses from others in their environment?

Evocative genotype -> environment effects Submissive genotype ->environment effects Proactive -> environment effects Active genotype -> environment effects

An elderly widow is angry with her children for telling her she should not live alone in her home anymore, because she fell recently

She blames the fall on inadequate lighting and claims that if her children did some house repairs, she could stay in her house. This woman's inability to deal with her changed circumstances reflects her difficulty in which of the following processes? a. making a successful status passage into older adulthood b. achieving intimacy with herself c. assimilation d. accommodation