A gene is found that controls the age at which a man grows bald, if at all. That gene seldom affects women, even if they have the gene. What kind of gene is this MOST likely to be?

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, used a technique he called "The Big Lie." He knew that people begin to believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times. The formal name for this technique is ________

a. the validity effect. b. groupthink. c. diffusion of responsibility. d. symbolic racism.

Older children write better than younger children because

a. they have less knowledge about the world. b. they have mastered the mechanical aspects of writing. c. they organize their writing as they retrieve it, often without an obvious structure. d. they don't revise it.